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Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Hartman is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature and Faculty Advisor to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. Among his many books are Beyond Formalism and Criticism in the Wilderness. The Geoffrey Hartman Reader, which he coedited with Daniel T. O'Hara, was awarded the 2006 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Klappentext In "The Third Pillar!" Geoffrey Hartman! one of the most influential scholars and teachers of English and Comparative Literature of recent decades! has brought together some of the most important and eloquent essays he has written since the 1980s on the major texts of the Jewish tradition. Zusammenfassung In The Third Pillar! Geoffrey Hartman! one of the most influential scholars and teachers of English and Comparative Literature of recent decades! has brought together some of the most important and eloquent essays he has written since the 1980s on the major texts of the Jewish tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface PART I. BIBLE Chapter 1. The Struggle for the Text Chapter 2. The Blind Side of the Akedah Chapter 3. Numbers: Realism and Magic Chapter 4. Meaning and Music Chapter 5. The Poetics of Prophecy PART II. MIDRASH Chapter 6. Midrash as Law and Literature Chapter 7. Jewish Tradition as/and the Other Chapter 8. Angels in the Academy: The Drama of Commentary Chapter 9. Text, Spirit, and the Bat Kol PART III. EDUCATION Chapter 10. Who Is an Educated Jew? Chapter 11. Religious Literacy Chapter 12. On the Jewish Imagination Chapter 13. The Artist between Sacred and Profane Notes Index Acknowledgments
