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English translation: overreading


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Italian term or phrase:sovralettura
English translation:overreading
Entered by: Sara Maghini
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07:27 Jan 13, 2011
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Social Sciences - History
Italian term or phrase: sovraletture
Scritture letture sovraletture - from the title of a thesis analysing medieval manuscripts. The term refers to written comments made by scribes regarding the text.
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overreading(s)
Explanation:
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The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the study of literature and film: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Žižek, and Stanley Cavell. Their approaches are very different from one another, but they each make unexpected interpretive leaps that render their readings exhilarating and unnerving.


But do they go too far? Does a scribbled note left behind by Nietzsche really tell us about the nature of textuality? Can Hitchcock truly tell you "everything you always wanted to know about Lacan"? Does the blanket hung up in a motel room invoke the Kantian divide between the knowable phenomenal world and the unknowable things in themselves? Contextualizing the work of the five thinkers in the intellectual debates to which they contribute, this book analyzes the stakes and advantages of "overreading."


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Sara Maghini
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Local time: 19:54
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overreading(s)


Explanation:
From the link below:
The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the study of literature and film: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Žižek, and Stanley Cavell. Their approaches are very different from one another, but they each make unexpected interpretive leaps that render their readings exhilarating and unnerving.


But do they go too far? Does a scribbled note left behind by Nietzsche really tell us about the nature of textuality? Can Hitchcock truly tell you "everything you always wanted to know about Lacan"? Does the blanket hung up in a motel room invoke the Kantian divide between the knowable phenomenal world and the unknowable things in themselves? Contextualizing the work of the five thinkers in the intellectual debates to which they contribute, this book analyzes the stakes and advantages of "overreading."





    Reference: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=17458
Sara Maghini
Italy
Local time: 19:54
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 7

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annotations


Explanation:
An annotation is a note that is made while reading information in a book, document, online record, video, software code or other information, "in the margin".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annotation

Wendy Streitparth
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