Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9781945861048ISBN-10:1945861045UPC:9781945861048Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, Semiotics & TheorySize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCS2BSD00S
Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies
An inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearing
When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things that they never meant to say, the saying, in its unsteady relation to understanding, becomes an event. That event has long been studied by a disparate company of interpreters: prophets,...Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9781945861048ISBN-10:1945861045UPC:9781945861048Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, Semiotics & TheorySize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCS2BSD00S
Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks 1919 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His is the author, most recently, of Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons; No One's Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming, Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers, and The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World.
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