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| Titre : | A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives : The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture |
| Auteurs : | Yvonne Sherwood, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | New York [USA] : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-521-79561-6 |
| Format : | xii + 321 p. / ill. N&B (cahier central hors-texte, 16 p.) |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : | This book charts the mutations of a particularly buoyant sliver of biblical text - the book of Jonah - as it latches onto Christian and Jewish motifs and anxieties, passes through highbrow and lowbrow culture, and finally becomes something of a scavenger among the ruins, as, in its most resourceful move to date, it begins to live off the demise of faith. Written at a point between Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature and Art, this book is concerned with those versions of the biblical that escape proper disciplinary boundaries: it shifts the focus from 'Mainstream' to 'Backwater' interpretation. It is less a navigation of interpretative history and more an interrogation of larger political/cultural issues: anti-Judaism in Biblical Studies, the secularisation of the Bible and the projection of the Bible as credulous ingénu, naive Other to our savvy post-Enlightenment selves. |
| Note de contenu : |
- List of illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction. Marvellous excess and monstrous mutations: on dishing up and spinning (out) biblical words - 1. THE MAINSTREAM 1. Jonah and the Fathers: Jonah and Jesus as typological twins 2. Jonah the Jew: the evolution of a biblical character 3. Divine disciplinary devices; or the book of Jonah as a tractate on producing docile disciple-bodies 4. Cataloguing the monstrous: Jonah and the cani cacharis (or a concluding scientific postscript) 5. Taking stock: survivals, hauntings, Jonah and (Stanley) Fish, and the Christian colonisation of the book of Jonah - 2. BACKWATERS AND UNDERBELLIES 1. Jewish interpretation 2. Popular interpretation 3. On the strained relations between the Backwaters and the Mainstream; or how Jewish and popular readings are prone to bring on a bout of scholarly dyspepsia 4. Of survival, memes, and life-after-death: on Jonah’s infinite regurgitation and endless survival 5. Jonah on the oncology ward and the beached-up whale carcass; or the strange secular afterlives of biblical texts - 3. REGURGITATING JONAH 1. Of ‘hot chestnuts’, ‘fluid puddings’, and ‘plots that do not shelter us’: some ruminations on the salvific properties of the Bible and literature 2. Regurgitaling Jonah 3. In conclusion . . . salvaging Jonah: the book of Jonah as the quintessential story and the most typical of biblical texts - Bibliography - Index |
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