Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts

Author / Editor
Astell, Ann W., and J. A. Jackson, eds.

Title
Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts

Published
Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne University Press, 2009.

Physical Description
x, 374 pp.

Description
Twelve essays by various authors, plus an introduction by the editors, consider interactions among Christian allegory, talmudic hermeneutics, and the interpretive theory of Emmanuel Levinas. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Levinas and Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.

Contributor
Jackson, J. A., ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.