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Subtitle: Levinas, literature, transcultural studies
By: Steven Shankman.
Series: SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438430850
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel -- Ethics; Ethics in literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature; Literature and morals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The promise of language in the depths of hell: Primo Levi's Canto of Ulysses and Inferno; title: The difference between difference and otherness: Il milione of Marco Polo and Calvino's Le città invisibili; title: Traces of the Confucian/Mencian other: ethical moments in Sima Qian's Records of the historian; title: War and the Hellenic splendor of knowing: Euripides, Hölderlin, Celan; title: The saying, the said, and the betrayal of mercy in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; title: Nom de dieu, quelle race: the saying, the said, and the betrayal of charity in Mongo Beti's Le pauvre Christ de Bomba; title: Transcendent divinity and human responsibility in Mahfouz: "zaabalawi" and children of our alley; title: That you might have my witness in your poem: Valéry, the symbolist tradition, and Edgar Bowers' later blank verse.