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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 331–351.
Published: 01 June 2010
... to the narrative relevance of God's self-designation in the context of the book of Exodus. The article investigates the narrative potential of God's revealed name along the threefold movement of suspense, curiosity, and surprise. The attention to the syntactic, semantic, rhetorical, and narrative aspects of God's...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 591–618.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the Hebrew Bible, mostly from Exodus and Deuteronomy, relating the story of the exodus of the people of Israel from Egypt, and of later expansions and comments on these passages. The people who came out of Egypt are variously referred to as ‘‘the children of Israel ‘‘they ‘‘our fathers ‘‘your [God’s...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 797–799.
Published: 01 December 2010
... asher ehyeh (Exodus 3:14): God’s “Narrative Identity” among Suspense, Curiosity, and Surprise 331 Sternberg, Meir Narrativity: From Objectivist to Functional Paradigm 507 Tabbi, Joseph Electronic Literature as World Literature; or, The Universality of Writing under...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 233–303.
Published: 01 September 2015
... such candidate because of his comparable purity legislation and because of the correspondence between the large chunk of Exodus devoted to specifying the tabernacle and the similarly large chunk of “Thus saith the Lord” for the utopian temple of Ezekiel 40 – 48. The “high mountain” that was Moses’s Sinai now...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (4): 629–667.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., Stanislav 2002 Andegraund. Istoriia i mify Leningradskoi neofitsial'noi literatury (Underground: History and Myths of Leningrad Unofficial Literature) (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie). Schroeter, Leonard 1979 The Last Exodus (Seattle: University of Washington Press). Solzhenitsyn...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 89–106.
Published: 01 March 2009
... (such as A Chronicle of Current Events, the Ukrainian Herald, Problems of Society, etc In 1970, a group of Zionist-minded elements in Moscow, Leningrad, and Riga began to pub- lish a journal called Exodus. Western propaganda, along with foreign centers and organizations hos- tile to the Soviet Union...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 209–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
... on the theme is Egypt’s enslavement of Israel in Exodus, followed by genocide. 232 Poetics Today 26:2 Accordingly, as the breach of testimonial decorum climaxes in the allu- sion to God’s image at the end of the first stanza, we are left wondering how the speaker will proceed, between irony...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (2): 327–351.
Published: 01 June 2016
... figures towards exodus figures, on to the tendentially implicit of the entelechially intended goal, as it is not yet become, but is utopically latent. Latency is the entelechial of matter in potentiality, utopical, yet already concretely utopian thanks to the exodus figures in the process...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 387–436.
Published: 01 September 2008
... House in Umbria (New York: Penguin). Updike, John 2006 Terrorist (London: Hamish Hamilton). Uris, Leon 1958 Exodus (Garden City, NY: Doubleday). Wallace, David Foster 1996 Infinite Jest (Boston: Little, Brown). West, Paul 2001 A Fifth of November (New York: New Directions...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 187–204.
Published: 01 June 2020
... is to favor individual liberty over structures of authority. For example, in Christianity a founding commandment is honor thy father and thy mother (Exodus 20:12, King James version). Yet, in Romeo and Juliet one of the most widely appreciated works of English literature the lovers defy their family...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 615–617.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and disharmonious. (4) Finally, two essays (“Exodus and Return” and “The Logic of Ulysses”) elaborate on the notion of the simular novel, as exemplified by Joyce’s works. (Unfortunately, there are no detailed discussions of Virginia New Books at a Glance 621...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 617–622.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and disharmonious. (4) Finally, two essays (“Exodus and Return” and “The Logic of Ulysses”) elaborate on the notion of the simular novel, as exemplified by Joyce’s works. (Unfortunately, there are no detailed discussions of Virginia New Books at a Glance 621...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 622–625.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of the pre-Victorian novel but with a radical change in the value system concerning the individual’s relation to society and to nature, which becomes considerably more problematic and disharmonious. (4) Finally, two essays (“Exodus and Return” and “The Logic of Ulysses”) elaborate...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 625–628.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of the pre-Victorian novel but with a radical change in the value system concerning the individual’s relation to society and to nature, which becomes considerably more problematic and disharmonious. (4) Finally, two essays (“Exodus and Return” and “The Logic of Ulysses”) elaborate...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 628–631.
Published: 01 December 2013
... is explained by their reversion to the individual focus of the pre-Victorian novel but with a radical change in the value system concerning the individual’s relation to society and to nature, which becomes considerably more problematic and disharmonious. (4) Finally, two essays (“Exodus...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 631–634.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of the pre-Victorian novel but with a radical change in the value system concerning the individual’s relation to society and to nature, which becomes considerably more problematic and disharmonious. (4) Finally, two essays (“Exodus and Return” and “The Logic of Ulysses”) elaborate...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 435–452.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of the Exodus from Egypt, with Voor- trekker leaders such as Piet Retief cast as Moses and the Volk as God’s chosen people. Over time even outsiders came to adopt such similarly monolithic terms, describing the Afrikaners as the ‘‘white tribe’’ of South Africa—although with negative connotations...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (3): 489–512.
Published: 01 September 2002
... to hebraicize.—Israel, Israelite.—Jerusalem. Jerusalemite.—Zion- 6722 Poetics Today / 23:3 / sheet 142 of 214 ism, Zionist.—Semite, semitic. Antisemitism.—People of God.—The tribes. Galilean. Samaritan.—Pharisee, Pharisaism.The Exodus.—Ashkenazi (Central...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 June 2006
... ‘‘testimonial violence’’ becomes at once nauseating and mimetic—where the text swal- lows its own gestures toward empathy. We find dozens of similar examples throughout Delbo’s writing. In a sec- tion simply called ‘‘Auschwitz Delbo describes a brief exodus from the camp into a strange city and out...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 387–413.
Published: 01 September 2016
...) — with the hermeneutic of Exodus and Apocalypse, the proper space for the investment of hopes. Putting into play Rozanov’s onto- logical algebra discussed above, Bloch’s concept of the “will to newness” or “the utopian surplus,” to use his own terminology, implies a “minus a-onto- logy” (Block 2000: 196). Bloch’s...