Far calls : on omens, slips & epiphanies / Daniel Heller-Roazen.

Author/creator Heller-Roazen, Daniel author.
Format Book
PublicationBrooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Description401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Variant title On omens, slips and epiphanies
Contents The interval -- Hermes at dusk -- The summons -- Dawn in Ithaca -- Crassus at the crossing -- Noise that answers -- A lesser prophecy -- In the garden -- The knight guesses -- Of proverbs -- Lines and sentences -- Magic dictations -- The inside of stumbling -- Truth details -- Gropings of a spiritual ear -- The chain breaks -- Something demonic.
Abstract "Moving from the divinatory rituals of the ancient world to Freud and Lacan, from Homer and Augustine to Edgar Allan Poe and Mallarmé, the Surrealists, Yeats, and Proust, Far Calls explores the persistent power of sonorous coincidence and the varieties of reading that it incites"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (361-392) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Far calls New York : Zone Books, 2025 9781945861055
LCCN 2024058173
ISBN9781945861048 hardcover
ISBN1945861045 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
Standard identifier# CIPO000274072

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN56 .L539 H45 2025 ✔ Available Place Hold