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Sustaining fictions : intertextuality, Midrash, translation, and the literary afterlife of the Bible
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Sustaining fictions : intertextuality, Midrash, translation, and the literary afterlife of the Bible

Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg

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Speaking the world into being
From Moses to Moses, there is none like Moses
The three dimensions : approach, stance, and filter
The three paradigms : intertextuality, Midrash, translation
Creation in the image
Reception theory and literary afterlives
Talking about the literary afterlife of the Bible
The art of biblical retelling
According to the likeness
Literary criticism and the interrelationships of texts
Imitation
Invention
Influence
Intertextuality
Naming the animals
Inventiveness in retelling
Intentional interrelationships
Naming the animals
Hyptertexts generate hypertexts
Is it in heaven?
Midrash and literature
What is Midrash? : the two faces of Midrash : Halakhah and Aggadah
The nature of the Aggadah
The inner logic of Aggadic Midrash
What is the Midrash of the literary theorists?
Postmodern Midrash
Midrash and indeterminacy?
It is not in heaven : the problems with the Midrash of the literary theorists
What is modern Midrash?
The Jewish question
The word is very near
From Aggadah to Halakhah : co-opting the vocabulary of Midrash
The Middot : principles of rabbinic exegesis
The viability of co-opting (anew) the vocabulary of Midrash
Let us confound their language
The literary afterlife : where retelling and translation intersect
Theories and theoretical vocabularies of translation
The science of translation
Early translation studies
Polysystem theory
Deconstruction (or, translation and the vocabulary of deformation)
The approach of the translator
Unto all languages that dwell in the earth
The stance of the translator
Translating the language of translation
Translation as cure
These are the words
What is the what?
The language of approach
The language of stance
The language of filter
Sustaining fictions.

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Sustaining fictions : intertextuality, Midrash, translation, and the literary afterlife of the Bible by Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg. ISBN 9780567027092. Published by T & T Clark in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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