The prophetic law : essays in Judaism, Girardianism, literary studies, and the ethical / / Sandor Goodhart

• Autore: Goodhart Sandor
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, French - 20th century; Philosophy, Modern - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part one. Dialogue among Girardians -- part two. Girardian reading and the scriptural -- part three. Girardian reading and the literary -- part four. Girardian reading and the ethical.
• Sommario/riassunto: To read literature is to read the way literature reads. René Girard's immense body of work supports this thesis bountifully. Whether engaging the European novel, ancient Greek tragedy, Shakespeare's plays, or Jewish and Christian scripture, Girard teaches us to read prophetically, not by offering a method he has developed, but by presenting the methodologies they have developed, the interpretative readings already available within (and constitutive of) such bodies of classical writing. In The Prophetic Law, literary scholar, theorist, and critic Sandor Goodhart divides his essay
• Titolo autorizzato: The prophetic law
• ISBN: 1-60917-413-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789154603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.