Adam Zachary Newton: 3 books
To Make the Hands Impure
Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read?
For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein “ethics” becomes a matter...
Roth after Eighty
Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy.
This collection seeks to answer those questions...
Jewish Studies as Counterlife
A Report to the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A sustained, systematic and programmatic critique of what it means for a field or discipline of academic inquiry to come into existence and of the place of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in the modern unviersity.