{"product_id":"far-calls-on-omens-slips-epiphanies-hardcover","title":"Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, \u0026 Epiphanies - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Heller-Roazen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearing \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things that they never meant to say, the saying, in its unsteady relation to understanding, becomes an event. That event has long been studied by a disparate company of interpreters: prophets, priests, and rabbis, poets and philosophers, linguists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, novelists and filmmakers. All have suggested that in the contingencies of discourse, there are precious indications to be gleaned, for which special techniques are required. In \u003ci\u003eFar Calls, \u003c\/i\u003eDaniel Heller-Roazen reconstructs such arts of detection, interweaving ancient, medieval, and modern examples. From the rituals of the ancient Greeks, Jews, and Romans to Freud and Lacan, from Augustine's catching of a salvific scrap of speech to the inspiration that Breton and Yeats, Proust and Joyce, drew from profane cries and transmissions, \u003ci\u003eFar Calls\u003c\/i\u003e explores the powers of sonorous coincidence and the varieties of reading that it incites.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Heller-Roazen\u003c\/b\u003e is the Arthur W. Marks 1919 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eAbsentees: On Variously Missing Persons\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNo One's Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704303087923,"sku":"9781945861048","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/rn8u6Z1Yct9781945861048.webp?v=1763351817","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/far-calls-on-omens-slips-epiphanies-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}