A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of LoveIf the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the "law of love"—the twofold love of God and one's neighbor—what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book. Through theological reflection interspersed with readings of literary texts (Shakespeare and Cervantes, Nabokov and Nicholson Baker, George Eliot and W. H. Auden and Dickens), Jacobs pursues an elusive quarry: the charitable reader. |
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... character of my pursuit: I might say that I am interested in praktischen Venunft rather than reinen Vernunft, or that I am "Against Theory" in the sense made familiar to literary scholars by the essay of that name by Stephen Knapp and ...
... character of my pursuit: I might say that I am interested in praktischen Venunft rather than reinen Vernunft, or that I am "Against Theory" in the sense made familiar to literary scholars by the essay of that name by Stephen Knapp and ...
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... characters, only Hero and Don John (the innocent victim and the villain) actually know that the charge of fornication is false. Or do they alone know? That depends on what counts as knowledge. The first to speak on Hero's behalf—after ...
... characters, only Hero and Don John (the innocent victim and the villain) actually know that the charge of fornication is false. Or do they alone know? That depends on what counts as knowledge. The first to speak on Hero's behalf—after ...
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... character. Claudio and Don Pedro possess what they think of as "ocular proof' of Hero's infidelity, and that alone serves to determine their reading of Hero's blushes. No other factors shape their interpretation, nor, indeed, could they ...
... character. Claudio and Don Pedro possess what they think of as "ocular proof' of Hero's infidelity, and that alone serves to determine their reading of Hero's blushes. No other factors shape their interpretation, nor, indeed, could they ...
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... character of Hero. This authority has, he explains, multiple sources: his age and consequent seasoning in the world (including, we may presume, the social world, the world of men-and-women-together, which Claudio and Don Pedro as ...
... character of Hero. This authority has, he explains, multiple sources: his age and consequent seasoning in the world (including, we may presume, the social world, the world of men-and-women-together, which Claudio and Don Pedro as ...
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... character that gives the lie to the princes' accusation—and, one might add, to Leonato's shockingly immediate acquiescence in his daughter's condemnation. Beatrice's claim comes not in the form of an argument but, instead, as a series ...
... character that gives the lie to the princes' accusation—and, one might add, to Leonato's shockingly immediate acquiescence in his daughter's condemnation. Beatrice's claim comes not in the form of an argument but, instead, as a series ...
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