Antonio’s Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish LiteratureStanford University Press, 2 jun 2004 - 368 pagina's Antonio's Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing the progress of a few remarkable writers who, for various reasons and in various ways, cited Scripture for their own purpose, as Antonio's "devil," Shylock, does in The Merchant of Venice. By examining the work of key figures in the early history of Jewish literature through the prism of their allusions to classical Jewish texts, the book focuses attention on the magnificent and highly complex strategies the maskilim employed to achieve their polemical and ideological goals. Dauber uses this methodology to examine foundational texts by some of the Jewish Enlightenment's most interesting and important authors, reaching new and often surprising conclusions. |
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Pagina 4
... story of Jacob and Laban from Genesis 30:25–43. The story is fairly straightforward, and Shylock relates it fairly accurately: Laban 3. For example, Barbara Lewalski Wnds in The Merchant of Venice “patterns of Biblical allusion and ...
... story of Jacob and Laban from Genesis 30:25–43. The story is fairly straightforward, and Shylock relates it fairly accurately: Laban 3. For example, Barbara Lewalski Wnds in The Merchant of Venice “patterns of Biblical allusion and ...
Pagina 7
... story whose connection to the taking of interest is, at best, oblique? None other than Antonio himself raises this question: the man who remarks that “the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose” understands the ways in which citative ...
... story whose connection to the taking of interest is, at best, oblique? None other than Antonio himself raises this question: the man who remarks that “the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose” understands the ways in which citative ...
Pagina 8
... story as irrelevant, this citation hardly seems self-serving. So again, why this passage? In his construction of this encounter, Shakespeare portrays Shylock as, perhaps, cleverer than Antonio understands. “Shylock uses language as he ...
... story as irrelevant, this citation hardly seems self-serving. So again, why this passage? In his construction of this encounter, Shakespeare portrays Shylock as, perhaps, cleverer than Antonio understands. “Shylock uses language as he ...
Pagina 10
... story of Laban and Jacob, a story which, as we will see, well expresses his anger at hypocrisy and his sense of moral, not merely economic, superiority. Antonio's critique is thus partially correct: this Biblical citation does not work ...
... story of Laban and Jacob, a story which, as we will see, well expresses his anger at hypocrisy and his sense of moral, not merely economic, superiority. Antonio's critique is thus partially correct: this Biblical citation does not work ...
Pagina 11
... story as a dig at Antonio, but continues it as a warning, if Antonio has but the cleverness to heed it. In telling him to “Mark what Jacob did,” he implies that if indeed the two of them are positioned similarly to Laban and Jacob, he ...
... story as a dig at Antonio, but continues it as a warning, if Antonio has but the cleverness to heed it. In telling him to “Mark what Jacob did,” he implies that if indeed the two of them are positioned similarly to Laban and Jacob, he ...
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Antonio’s Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of ... Jeremy Dauber Fragmentweergave - 2004 |
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Pagina 64 - It is literature that produces an active solidarity in spite of skepticism; and if the writer is in the margins or completely outside his or her fragile community, this situation allows the writer all the more the possibility to express another possible community and to forge the means for another consciousness and another sensibility.
Pagina 22 - do a great right, do a little wrong”: “It must not be, there is no power in Venice can alter a decree established
Pagina 9 - The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylock the lew towards the saide Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh
Pagina 61 - constitutes. . . a sense of absolute because experienced reality beyond which it is very difficult for most members of the society to move, in most areas of their lives