Sodomscapes : hospitality in the flesh / / Lowell Gallagher

• Autore: Gallagher Lowell <1953->
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 222/.11092
• Soggetto topico: Hospitality in the Bible; RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
• Soggetto geografico: Sodom (Extinct city)
• Soggetto non controllato: Face (Levinas); Figura; Flesh; Hospitality; Kenosis; Lot's Wife; Phenomenology; Sodom
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: Entering Sodomscape -- Introduction: Figural Moorings of Hospitality in Sodomscape -- 1. Exodus, Interrupted: Lot’s Wife and the Allegorical Interval -- 2. The Rise of Prophecy: Figural Neuter, Desert of Allegory -- 3. Remembering Lot’s Wife: The Structure of Testimony in the Painted Life of Mary Ward -- 4. Avant-Garde Lot’s Wife: Natalia Goncharova’s Salt Pillars and the Rebirth of Hospitality -- 5. Soundings in Sodomscape: Biblical Purity Codes, Spa Clinics, and the Ends of Immunity -- 6. The Face of the Contemporary: Lost World Fantasies of Finding Lot’s Wife -- 7. Out of Africa: Albert Memmi’s Desert of Allegory in The Pillar of Salt -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Sodomscapes presents a fresh approach to the story of Lot’s wife, as it’s been read across cultures and generations. In the process, it reinterprets foundational concepts of ethics, representation, and the body. While the sudden mutation of Lot’s wife in the flight from Sodom is often read to confirm our antiscopic bias, a rival tradition emphasizes the counterintuitive optics required to nurture sustainable habitations for life in view of its unforeseeable contingency. Whether in medieval exegesis, Russian avant-garde art, Renaissance painting, or today’s Dead Sea health care tourism industry, the repeated desire to reclaim Lot’s wife turns the cautionary emblem of the mutating woman into a figural laboratory for testing the ethical bounds of hospitality. Sodomscape—the book’s name for this gesture—revisits touchstone moments in the history of figural thinking and places them in conversation with key thinkers of hospitality. The book’s cumulative perspective identifies Lot’s wife as the resilient figure of vigilant dwelling, whose in-betweenness discloses counterintuitive ways of understanding what counts as a life amid divergent claims of being-with and being-for.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sodomscapes
• ISBN: 0-8232-7524-8; 0-8232-7724-0; 0-8232-7523-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792872603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II