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To Make the Hands Impure : Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy / Adam Zachary Newton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (502 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823263523
  • 9780823273324
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 190 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue. Meaningful Adjacencies -- Introduction. Laws of Tact and Genre -- Part One. Hands -- Chapter 1. Pledge, Turn, Prestige -- Chapter 2. Sollicitation and Rubbing the Text -- Chapter 3. Blaise Pascal, Henry Darger, and the Book in Hand -- Part Two. Genres -- Chapter 4. Ethics of Reading I -- Chapter 5. Ethics of Reading II -- Chapter 6. Ethics of Reading III -- Part Three. Languages -- Chapter 7. Abyss, Volcano, and the Frozen Swirl of Words -- Epilogue. The Book in Hand, Again -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Topics and Works
Summary: How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read?For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein "ethics" becomes a matter of tact-in the doubled sense of touch and regard. With the image of the book lying in the hands of its readers as insistent refrain, To Make the Hands Impure cuts a provocative cross-disciplinary swath through classical Jewish texts, modern Jewish philosophy, film and performance, literature, translation, and the material text.Newton explores the ethics of reading through a range of texts, from the Talmud and Midrash to Conrad's Nostromo and Pascal's Le Mémorial, from works by Henry Darger and Martin Scorsese to the National September 11 Memorial and a synagogue in Havana, Cuba. In separate chapters, he conducts masterly treatments of Emmanuel Levinas, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stanley Cavell by emphasizing their performances as readers-a trebled orientation to Talmud, novel, and theater/film. To Make the Hands Impure stages the encounter of literary experience and scriptural traditions-the difficult and the holy-through an ambitious, singular, and innovative approach marked in equal measure by erudition and imaginative daring.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue. Meaningful Adjacencies -- Introduction. Laws of Tact and Genre -- Part One. Hands -- Chapter 1. Pledge, Turn, Prestige -- Chapter 2. Sollicitation and Rubbing the Text -- Chapter 3. Blaise Pascal, Henry Darger, and the Book in Hand -- Part Two. Genres -- Chapter 4. Ethics of Reading I -- Chapter 5. Ethics of Reading II -- Chapter 6. Ethics of Reading III -- Part Three. Languages -- Chapter 7. Abyss, Volcano, and the Frozen Swirl of Words -- Epilogue. The Book in Hand, Again -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Topics and Works

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How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read?For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein "ethics" becomes a matter of tact-in the doubled sense of touch and regard. With the image of the book lying in the hands of its readers as insistent refrain, To Make the Hands Impure cuts a provocative cross-disciplinary swath through classical Jewish texts, modern Jewish philosophy, film and performance, literature, translation, and the material text.Newton explores the ethics of reading through a range of texts, from the Talmud and Midrash to Conrad's Nostromo and Pascal's Le Mémorial, from works by Henry Darger and Martin Scorsese to the National September 11 Memorial and a synagogue in Havana, Cuba. In separate chapters, he conducts masterly treatments of Emmanuel Levinas, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stanley Cavell by emphasizing their performances as readers-a trebled orientation to Talmud, novel, and theater/film. To Make the Hands Impure stages the encounter of literary experience and scriptural traditions-the difficult and the holy-through an ambitious, singular, and innovative approach marked in equal measure by erudition and imaginative daring.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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