'But Now My Eye Sees You': Reading Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and the Book of Job with Hélène Cixous

This article undertakes a reading of Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and the book of Job that is informed by the work of Hélène Cixous. As such, it attempts to enact a way of reading and writing that is invitatory and relational, where texts and readers are engaged as conversation partner...

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Main Author: Reek, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-215
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HB Old Testament
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Summary:This article undertakes a reading of Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and the book of Job that is informed by the work of Hélène Cixous. As such, it attempts to enact a way of reading and writing that is invitatory and relational, where texts and readers are engaged as conversation partners and the voices of the 'poets' and my own voice are listened to authentically. In line with Cixous' reading and writing practice, which is influenced by Heidegger's later writing on poetics, a path is allowed to unfold into the texts, without imposition of the author upon them, a process created in the interplay between the content and form of the work.
ISSN:1477-4623
Contains:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fru047