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(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text

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exegesis
exegete
exegetically
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and enthusiastically yielding to the festive, Dionysian vision of ultimate carnival (or penultimate carnival) exegesis

—p.12 The Part About The Critics (1) by Roberto Bolaño
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There are now countless hip-hop-lyric exegetical sites that try to resolve what is being said.

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 6 months ago


The new Paramount comedy-western is worth any number of Bergman’s exegetical nightmares.

lol

—p.248 by Don DeLillo
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9 months, 2 weeks ago


Just as Kraus’s densely argued texts deplore the mechanization of verse, so Franzen’s unstructured exegeses attempt to summon a similar abhorrence of the digitization of the novel.

—p.242 No One Hates Him More: On Franzen’s Kraus (235) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 2 months ago


It is presented by the author in full exegetical mode

—p.97 Character (75) by James Wood
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7 years ago


require a full-scale exegesis of a text

—p.33 by Annie Dillard
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4 years, 11 months ago

any formal textual exegesis at all, whether it be Russian formalist, New Critical, phenomenologist, or structuralist

—p.97 by Annie Dillard
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4 years, 11 months ago


But such a reconstruction from fragmentary sources, no matter how exegetically rigorous, should not be construed as the “true Marx.”

—p.19 Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency (1) by Mike Davis
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10 months, 2 weeks ago


muffle the political imperative in the untroubled exegesis of a classified work

—p.37 Injunctions of Marx (1) by Jacques Derrida
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6 years, 11 months ago


He was such a firm believer that he spent the last years of his life writing an exegesis of the Bible – the one sacred text that was really available to him

—p.205 by Michel Houellebecq
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His early exegete Lotte Eisner called her book on German Expressionist cinema The Haunted Screen, but it’s only Murnau’s films that seem truly haunted, haunted from within

—p.418 Almost a Phantom (417) by A S Hamrah
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1 year, 2 months ago


this incipient destruction of form is itself a distinctly formal pleasure, ripe for exegesis

—p.125 Essays (2018): Unform (123) by Sarah Chihaya
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11 months, 1 week ago


his own prose, built of solid blocks of exegesis and description

—p.67 Edmund Wilson (64) by James Wood
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7 years, 1 month ago


a recent exegete regards Lenininism as a psychopathological phenomenon

—p.111 Time and Progress: Another Philosophy of History? (80) by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 1 month ago

On the Jewish Question of 1843, which contains the famous exegesis of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

—p.73 Ideology or Fetishism: Power and Subjection (42) by Étienne Balibar
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7 years, 1 month ago


The exegetical artifice may not be enough

—p.49 Blame the Victim (39) missing author
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5 years, 10 months ago