Sacrificing commentary : reading the end of literature
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書誌事項
Sacrificing commentary : reading the end of literature
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-344) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This text proposes a new view of literary reading, arguing that the writing we have designated as "literary" is in fact a form of commentary or critical reading. This commentary is seen as our most powerful inquiry into questions of reading, aesthetics, violence, and ethical responsibility. To support his argument, the author offers a close analysis of Sophocles's "Oedipus Tyrannus", Shakespeare's "Richard II", four passages from the Hebrew Torah (the story of Joseph and his brothers, the ten commandments, the story of Jonah, and the story of Job), and a talk given shortly after the war by Yiddish poet and playwright Halpern Leivick. The text's conclusion is that criticism as we know it within a formal academic humanities setting, far from expounding the critical reading a given work makes available to us, more often acts out or repeats the very structures or conflicts which are its subject matter.
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