{"product_id":"reading-unruly-zahi-zalloua-9780803246270","title":"Reading Unruly: Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, \u003ci\u003eReading Unruly\u003c\/i\u003e examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response. Zahi Zalloua argues that when faced with an unruly work of art, readers confront an ethical double bind, hesitating then between the two conflicting injunctions of either thematizing (making sense) of the literary work, or attending to its aesthetic alterity or unreadability. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreatively hesitating between incommensurable demands (to interpret but not to translate back into familiar terms), ethical readers are invited to cultivate an appreciation for the unruly, to curb the desire for hermeneutic mastery without simultaneously renouncing meaning or the interpretive endeavor as such. Examining French texts from Montaigne's sixteenth-century \u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e to Diderot's fictional dialogue \u003ci\u003eRameau's Nephew\u003c\/i\u003e and Baudelaire's prose poems \u003ci\u003eThe Spleen of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, to the more recent works of Jean-Paul Sartre's \u003ci\u003eNausea\u003c\/i\u003e, Alain Robbe-Grillet's \u003ci\u003eJealousy\u003c\/i\u003e, and Marguerite Duras's \u003ci\u003eThe Ravishing of Lol Stein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReading Unruly\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that in such an approach to literature and theory, reading itself becomes a desire for more, an ethical and aesthetic desire to prolong rather than to arrest the act of interpretation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zahi Zalloua\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803246277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803246270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 807\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zahi Zalloua","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611006451967,"sku":"9780803246270","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_58df3d3f-d51c-43dd-a6b8-45008b93a391.jpg?v=1764511103","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-unruly-zahi-zalloua-9780803246270","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}