Table of Contents

List of Illustrations "The Road to Bauska" Acknowledgments "On Rembrandt's Sacrifice of Isaac (1635) in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia" Introduction: Rembrandt's The Sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham's Suspended Knife, and the Face of the Other 1. The Promise of Language in the Depths of Hell: Primo Levi's "Canto of Ulysses" and Inferno 26 2. The Difference between Difference and Otherness: Il milione of Marco Polo and Calvino's Le citta invisibili 3. Traces of the Confucian/Mencian Other: Ethical Moments in Sima Qian's Records of the Historian 4. War and the Hellenic Splendor of Knowing: Euripides, Holderlin, Celan 5. The Saying, the Said, and the Betrayal of Mercy in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice 6. "Nom de Dieu, quelle race!": The Saying, the Said, and the Betrayal of Charity in Mongo Beti's Le pauvre Christ de Bomba 7. Transcendent Divinity and Human Responsibility in Mahfouz: "Zaabalawi" and Children of our Alley 8. "That You Might Have My Witness in Your Poem": Valery, the Symbolist Tradition, and Edgar Bowers's Later Blank Verse Conclusion: The Saying and the Said/Representation and Interruption Notes Index

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At the University of Oregon, Steven Shankman is UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace and Distinguished Professor of English and Classics. His books include Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons, also published by SUNY Press, and The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China.