Papers by Susan Handelman
University Press of Mississippi eBooks, Nov 15, 2018
This chapter probes the Jewish visual imagination of the sacred through a discussion of the Hebre... more This chapter probes the Jewish visual imagination of the sacred through a discussion of the Hebrew alphabet as “graphic narrative.” Exploring how the relation of text and image becomes deconstructed and redefined in classical rabbinic writings on the Hebrew alphabet and the forms of the letters, this chapter opens a reciprocal dialogue between “comics” and “Torah,” and between theories of graphic narrative and rabbinic interpretation. What might a “theology of graphic narrative” look like? The ultimate source of creative pleasure in all of us—artists and academics, rabbis and readers, parents and children—is that we ourselves, finally, are the letters and the letters are us. We are “God’s comics..
Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks, 1990
Choice Reviews Online, May 1, 1992
... Fragments of redemption: Jewish thought and literary theory in Benjamin, Scholem, andLevinas.... more ... Fragments of redemption: Jewish thought and literary theory in Benjamin, Scholem, andLevinas. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Handelman, Susan A. PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press (Bloomington). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1991. ...
Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, 2018
I Algier, midt i en moske, som kolonisterne havde lavet om til en synagoge, bliver Toraen, når d... more I Algier, midt i en moske, som kolonisterne havde lavet om til en synagoge, bliver Toraen, når den tages frem fra sin plads bag forhænget [derriere les rideaux], båret rundt i armene på en mand eller et barn ... Børn, der har oplevet det pragtfulde ved denne højtidelighed, specielt de, der var i stand til at give en hånd med, drømmer måske om det længe efter, drømmer om der at arrangere alle stumperne af deres liv.
Psychoanalytic review, 1981
Rabbi Bana'ah said: There were twenty-four interpreters of dreams in Jerusalem. Once I dream... more Rabbi Bana'ah said: There were twenty-four interpreters of dreams in Jerusalem. Once I dreamt a dream and I went round to all of them and they all gave different interpretations, and all were fulfilled, thus confirming that which is said: All dreams follow the mouth [a dream follows ...
International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 1980
The abrupt shattering of a dream of union by some rude interruptive force is a pattern which is c... more The abrupt shattering of a dream of union by some rude interruptive force is a pattern which is central in all of Virginia Woolf's work. The union so desired is almost always union with a protective feminine figure, and the disruption so dreaded is usually caused by a power which is ...
Inter-textuality: New perspectives in criticism, 1978
Religion & Literature, 1990
"Otherness" or "alterity" have become fashionable terms in recent literary th... more "Otherness" or "alterity" have become fashionable terms in recent literary theory. The most problematic question, however, is defining just what and who is the "other." In most post-structuralist theory, "otherness" is usually accompanied by the notion of a "radical rupture" which ...
Prooftexts, 1985
... PROOFTEXTS 5 (1985): 75-103 ? 1985 by The Johns Hopkins University Press Page 2. 76 CONTROVER... more ... PROOFTEXTS 5 (1985): 75-103 ? 1985 by The Johns Hopkins University Press Page 2. 76 CONTROVERSY ... Interpretation thus always demands a double reading: self-interpretation along with the interpretation of objects, which are ...
The Journal of Religion, 1994
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