{"product_id":"mobian-nights-reading-literature-and-darkness-paperback","title":"Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandor Goodhart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I died at Auschwitz, +? French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, \"and nobody knows it.+? \u003ci\u003eMöbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness \u003c\/i\u003edevelops a new understanding of literary reading: that in the wake of disasters like the Holocaust, death remains a premise of our experience rather than a future. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChallenging customary \"aesthetic+? assumptions that we write in order \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003eto die, Sandor Goodhart suggests (with Kafka) we write \u003ci\u003eto \u003c\/i\u003edie. Drawing upon analyses developed by Girard, Foucault, Blanchot, and Levinas (along with examples from Homer to Beckett), \u003ci\u003eMöbian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that all literature works \"autobiographically+?, which is to say, in the wake of disaster; with the credo \"I died; therefore, I am+?; and for which the language of topology (for example, the \"Möbius strip+?) offers a vocabulary for naming the \"deep structure+? of such literary, critical, and scriptural sacrificial and anti-sacrificial dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSandor Goodhart \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Purdue University, USA. He is the author of editor of five books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Prophetic Law. Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), \u003ci\u003eSacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Ann Astell, 2011) and \u003ci\u003eFor René Girard. Essays in Friendship and Truth\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Jørgen Jørgenson, Tom Ryba, and James G. Williams, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47407838953650,"sku":"9781501350818","price":93.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b47db2286fd7652f807bae27b3ba6476.webp?v=1778229952","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/mobian-nights-reading-literature-and-darkness-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}