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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454485103321

Autore

Pardes Ilana

Titolo

Melville's Bibles [[electronic resource] /] / Ilana Pardes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-38571-9

0-520-94152-7

9786611385712

1-4356-5377-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

813/.3

Soggetti

Bible and literature

Religion and culture

Religion and literature - United States - History - 19th century

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Playing with Leviathan: Job and the Aesthetic Turn in Biblical Exegesis -- 2. "Jonah Historically Regarded": Improvisations on Kitto's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature -- 3. "Call Me Ishmael": The Bible and the Orient -- 4. Ahab, Idolatry, and the Question of Possession: Biblical Politics -- 5. Rachel's Inconsolable Cry: The Rise of Women's Bibles -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings-literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel



narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484866903321

Autore

Lucev Josip

Titolo

Systemic Cycle and Institutional Change : Labor Markets in the USA, Germany and China / / by Josip Lučev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030660536

3030660532

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 pages)

Disciplina

331.1

331.12

Soggetti

Labor economics

Economics

Development economics

Labor Economics

Political Economy and Economic Systems

Development Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. World-systems analysis and the systemic cycle -- 2. Institutions and institutional change -- 3. Framework oriented interpretations of the systemic cycle and institutional theory -- 4. A Systemic Cycle Oriented Framework of Institutional Change -- 5. Labor Market in United States of America -- 6. Labor Market in Germany -- 7. Labor Market in PR China -- 8. The Three Cases and their Patterns -- 9. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores endogenous institutional change and the global, cyclical, and power-based drivers that underpin it. A metatheoretical framework is presented to highlight the influence of path dependence, systemic cycle driven power relations, and institutional design on the



development of labor institutions. The framework is applied to the USA, Germany, and China to provide a comparative economic perspective. Systemic Cycle and Institutional Change: Labor Markets in the USA, Germany and China aims to examine endogenous institutional change through analyzing the systemic cycle and bringing together global and national conceptions of capitalism. It is relevant to students and researchers interested in comparative economics, political economy, and labor economics. Josip Lučev is a political scientist at Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb.