Forgetting Lot's Wife
Martin Harries
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Description for Forgetting Lot's Wife
Paperback. Provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at disaster might petrify the spectator. Num Pages: 192 pages, 22 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AB; ACX; AN; APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 290.
Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot’s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot’s wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at disaster ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823227341
SKU
V9780823227341
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Ref
99-15
About Martin Harries
MARTIN HARRIES is Professor of English at University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment.
Reviews for Forgetting Lot's Wife
"A remarkable book, strong in its interpretation of an ancient parable and prescient in its application to a few well-selected examples of art and literature from the century toward which we turn and look back in peril and in dread."
-Joseph Roach Yale University "Examines the modern fear that the sight of a historical catastrophe might destroy the viewer, ... Read more
-Joseph Roach Yale University "Examines the modern fear that the sight of a historical catastrophe might destroy the viewer, ... Read more