Sustaining Fictions

Chapter 1: Tellings Beget Retellings I. The Question(s) of Retelling II. The Exploding Canon A. The Example of Timothy Findley and the Wester Classics B. The First Theoretical Paradigm: Intertextuality III. Exploding The Canon A. The Example of Timothy Findley and the Bible B. The Second Theoretical Paradigm: Midrash IV. Theorizing Retelling A. Critical Dimensions: Approach, Stance, and Filter B. The Third Theoretical Paradigm: Translation Theory V. The Project: Talking about Retelling Chapter 2: Speaking of the Silence I. It Ain't Nothin': What the Critics are Saying II. The Pervasiveness of Retelling and the Paucity of Terms III. The Paucity Examined A. Retelling and the Western Canon B. Retelling and the Biblical Canon Compiling Biblical Retellings Compiling Biblical Influences Confronting Biblical Influences The Art of Biblical Retelling IV. The Shadows of a Language Chapter 3: Naming the Animals: The Languages of Literary Criticism and Theory I. Imitation II. Invention III. Influence V. Intentiveness VI. Intentional Interrelationships Gerard Genette's Palimpsests Varieties of Transtextual Relationship The Place of Genre A Hypertextual Taxonomy Thematic Transpositions Semantic Transpositions Naming the Animals "Hypertexts, as it is well known, generate hypertexts" Chapter 4: Words of Torah Need Each Other I. Midrash in the Service of Literature What is Midrash? The Two Faces of Midrash: Halakhah and Aggadah The Nature of the Aggadah The Inner Logic of Aggadic Midrash II. Post-Modern Midrash: Midrash Meets Theory Why is Midrash Part of the Language of Literary Theory? What is the Midrash of the Literary Theorists? Midrash and Indeterminancy? Lo B'Shamayim Hi: The Problem with the Midrash of the Literary Theorists III. The Retelling as Modern Midrash The Jewish Question Bringing Tradition and Time: The Problem with Designating Retelling as Midrashic IV. From Aggadah to Halakhah: Co-opting the Vocabulary of Midrash Thinknig in Terms of Midrash's Approach and Stance V. Co-opting Anew the Vocabulary of Midrash The Middot: Principles of Rabbinic Exegesis i. Kal vaHomer ii. Gezerah Shavah iii. Binyan Av MiKatuv Echad iv. Binyan Av MiShnei Ktuvim v. Clal Ufrat vi. Ke-yotsei Bo BiM'kom Aher vii. Davar Halamed Mi-Inyano The Viability of the Co-option Chapter 5: Radical Translation? I. The Disease of Translation The Literary Afterlife: Where Retelling and Translation Intersect II. Histories (if not Theories) of Translation The Translator's Approach The Translator's Stance Translating the Language of Translation III. Vocabularies of Translation Dryden: Metaphrase, Paraphrase and Imitation Goethe's Epochs of Translation The Family "Trans" Jakobson and the Translation of Verbal Signs IV. Theories of Translation V. Theoretical Vocabularies The Science of Translation Early Translation Studies Polysystem Theory Deconstruction (Or, Translation and the Vocabulary of Deformation) VI. Translation as Cure Chapter 6: Literary Afterlives, Literary Afterthoughts Sustaining Fictions Wither Thou Goest, I will Go Bibliography