The Bible as Writing Machine: Reflections on a Late Ancient Theory of Literature

IF 0.2 3区历史学 0 CLASSICS

ARETHUSA Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1353/are.2021.0017

V. Burrus

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Abstract

Abstract:For Christian writers of late antiquity, the bible is a kind of writing machine that is also a divine body. Drawing lightly on the theories of Jacques Derrida and Friedrich Kittler, I will unpack this enigmatic proposal by considering how a Latin letter, Nisi tanti seminis, imagines and performs writing as such by engaging a series of biblically-derived objects: chest, jug, lamp, textile. More than "mere" metaphors, these objects have something to say about the agency of writing qua medium. As we shall see, writing produces the writer, as much as the other way round. Writing is, moreover, revealed to be at once mechanical and revelatory, repetitious, and generative, primordial and of the moment—in short, quintessentially performative.

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作为写作机器的《圣经》:对古代晚期文学理论的反思

摘要：对于古代晚期的基督教作家来说，圣经是一种书写机器，也是一个神圣的身体。根据雅克·德里达和弗里德里希·基特勒的理论，我将通过思考拉丁字母Nisi tanti seminis是如何通过使用一系列圣经衍生的物体来想象和执行写作的，来解开这个神秘的提议：箱子、罐子、灯、织物。这些对象不仅仅是“纯粹的”隐喻，还有一些关于写作作为媒介的作用。正如我们将要看到的那样，写作产生了作家，反之亦然。此外，写作被揭示为同时具有机械性和启示性、重复性和生成性、原始性和当下性——简而言之，是典型的表演性。

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ARETHUSA CLASSICS-

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期刊介绍： Arethusa is known for publishing original literary and cultural studies of the ancient world and of the field of classics that combine contemporary theoretical perspectives with more traditional approaches to literary and material evidence. Interdisciplinary in nature, this distinguished journal often features special thematic issues.