Summoning : Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory.

Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Content -- Power and Constraint: Covenantal Hermeneutics in Milton -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Biblical Covenants as Performative Language -- Facing the Other: Levinas, Perelman, and Rosenzweig -- The Difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant -- The Perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning -- The Sign of the Covenant -- Covenants and Texts -- Redesigning Redemption: Covenant in the Testament of Moses -- Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe -- Binding and Unbinding: The Summons to Interpretation in The Merchant of Venice -- American Literature's Declaration of In/dependence: Stanley Cavell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Covenant of Consent -- Intertextuality and Reader Responsibility: Living On in Malamud's "The Mourners -- The New Covenant" and theDilemma of Dissensus:Bercovitch, Roth, and Doctorow -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Back Matter -- Back Cover.

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