The Politics of Purim : Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 273709781
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9780567691866
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 90,000-word book challenges and extends existing scholarship on the biblical book of Esther. It is the culmination of 17 years of research supported by two research grants (AHRC and Leverhulme Trust). It is at the forefront of interdisciplinary biblical reception research that draws on literature, biblical studies and political theory. It mixes archival research on the festival of Purim and its festival artefacts (Esther scrolls), artworks, and plays, as well as a recent political dramatization. It brings together the political philosophy of Agamben, Benjamin, Derrida and Rancière with analysis of the story of Esther and its aesthetic afterlives.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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