Loving Yusuf : conceptual travels from present to past / Mieke Bal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bal, Mieke, 1946-

Series:

Afterlives of the Bible.

Afterlives of the Bible

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joseph (Son of Jacob)--Meditations.

Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In Loving Yusuf¸ Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and text, using the same story, in which Joseph spurns the advance of his master's wife who then falsely accuses him of rape, as her point of departure. She juxtaposes the Genesis tale to the rather different version told in the Qur'an and the depictions of it by Rembrandt and explores how Thomas Mann's great retelling in Joseph and His Brothers reworks these versions. Through this inquiry she develops concepts for the analysis of texts that are both strange and overly familiar-culturally remote yet constantly retold. As she puts personal memories in dialogue with scholarly exegesis, Bal asks how all of these different versions complicate her own and others' experience of the story, and how the different truths of these texts in their respective traditions illuminate the process of canonization.

Contents:

First memories, second thoughts

Falling in love

Dreaming away

Looking in : outrageous, preposterous

The invention of sympathy

Sign language

Eyes wide shut

Truth speak

Loose canons : facing authority

Dad pains

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.

ISBN:

9786611959074

9781281959072

1281959073

9780226035888

0226035883

OCLC:

476228661