Sustaining fictions : intertextuality, Midrash, translation, and the literary afterlife of the Bible /: intertextuality, Midrash, translation, and the literary afterlife of the Bible. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg.
• Other Names: Stahlberg, Lesleigh Cushing
• Contents: Speaking the world into being -- From Moses to Moses, there is none like Moses -- The three dimensions : approach, stance, and filter -- The three paradigms : intertextuality, Midrash, translation -- Creation in the image -- Reception theory and literary afterlives -- Talking about the literary afterlife of the Bible -- The art of biblical retelling -- According to the likeness -- Literary criticism and the interrelationships of texts -- Imitation -- Invention -- Influence -- Intertextuality -- Naming the animals -- Inventiveness in retelling -- Intentional interrelationships -- Naming the animals -- Hyptertexts generate hypertexts -- Is it in heaven? -- Midrash and literature -- What is Midrash? : the two faces of Midrash : Halakhah and Aggadah -- The nature of the Aggadah -- The inner logic of Aggadic Midrash -- What is the Midrash of the literary theorists? -- Postmodern Midrash -- Midrash and indeterminacy? -- It is not in heaven : the problems with the Midrash of the literary theorists -- What is modern Midrash? -- The Jewish question -- The word is very near -- From Aggadah to Halakhah : co-opting the vocabulary of Midrash -- The Middot : principles of rabbinic exegesis -- The viability of co-opting (anew) the vocabulary of Midrash -- Let us confound their language -- The literary afterlife : where retelling and translation intersect -- Theories and theoretical vocabularies of translation -- The science of translation -- Early translation studies -- Polysystem theory -- Deconstruction (or, translation and the vocabulary of deformation) -- The approach of the translator -- Unto all languages that dwell in the earth -- The stance of the translator -- Translating the language of translation -- Translation as cure -- These are the words -- What is the what? -- The language of approach -- The language of stance -- The language of filter -- Sustaining fictions.
• Publisher Details: New York : T & T Clark
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)
• Subjects: 221.6/6; Bible as literature; RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament; Altes Testament -- Literatur; Literatur -- Altes Testament; Midrasch -- Literatur; Literatur -- Midrasch; Intertextualität -- Altes Testament; Altes Testament -- Intertextualität; Altes Testament -- Übersetzung; Altes Testament -- Rezeption; Bibelübersetzung; Midrasch; Intertextualität; Rabbinische Literatur; Midrasch; Rezeption; Jüdische Literatur; Intertextualität; Rabbinische Literatur; Bible as literature; Midrash; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567536457; 0567536459
• Related ISBNs: 9780567027092; 0567027090
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-236) and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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