(Per)mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the BookBloomsbury Publishing USA, 2006 M07 1 - 152 páginas (Per)mutations of Qohelet explores the question, Who is Qohelet? Rather than peering behind or through the text to answer this question in terms of authorship, Koosed analyzes the identity that is created through the words on the page. The text is not a transparent medium connecting reader with author; instead, it is an opaque body - it has weight, substance, skin. Koosed begins with an analysis of the ways in which words construct identities and the reasons why words can affect us so profoundly, relying primarily on the work of Judith Butler and Elaine Scarry. She then explores autobiography and how the genre of autobiography - as reconfigured by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida - relates to Qohelet. These two chapters then set the framework for what follows: an analysis of the various bodily organs and sensations contained within the book of Qohelet. The body is embedded in the text through the naming of body parts (eye, hand, heart). And this same body is encoded in form, structure, and syntax, so that the text becomes a body with organs, systems, and even a life of its own. The book is a body and the book speaks of bodies. It speaks of the body's organs and senses; it concerns itself with the pleasures and pains of the body, the gendered body, the dying body. Finally, the ritual body is highlighted in the final passage of this enigmatic book. |
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... Derrida , the stability of language and identity has been under- mined . Postmodern theories have revised both our notions of the self and of the text . Both can be incoherent , fragmented , lacking a stable center , contingent . This ...
... Derrida , the stability of language and identity has been under- mined . Postmodern theories have revised both our notions of the self and of the text . Both can be incoherent , fragmented , lacking a stable center , contingent . This ...
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... by Jacques Derrida and deconstruction ” in body theory . Welton , Body and Flesh , 4 . 40. Butler , Bodies that Matter , 68 . 41. Ibid . , 69 . of how and why words wound and what should be 8 ( Per ) mutations of Qohelet.
... by Jacques Derrida and deconstruction ” in body theory . Welton , Body and Flesh , 4 . 40. Butler , Bodies that Matter , 68 . 41. Ibid . , 69 . of how and why words wound and what should be 8 ( Per ) mutations of Qohelet.
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... Derrida . 43. Judith Butler , Excitable Speech : A Politics of the Performative ( New York : Routledge , 1997 ) , 10. Butler is citing Shoshana Feldman , The Literary Speech Act : Don Juan with J. L. Austin , or Seduction in Two ...
... Derrida . 43. Judith Butler , Excitable Speech : A Politics of the Performative ( New York : Routledge , 1997 ) , 10. Butler is citing Shoshana Feldman , The Literary Speech Act : Don Juan with J. L. Austin , or Seduction in Two ...
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... Derrida , I deconstruct such scholarship . The " author " read in Qohelet is only an effect of the text and its interactions with the reader . It is not its origin or final cause . The book of Qohelet forms a picture of the speaker not ...
... Derrida , I deconstruct such scholarship . The " author " read in Qohelet is only an effect of the text and its interactions with the reader . It is not its origin or final cause . The book of Qohelet forms a picture of the speaker not ...
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... ( Derrida's concept of " iterability " ) , two things extinguished by death . Therefore , Qohelet's meditation on death examined in both content and form becomes an exploration of the limits of signification . The last chapter will ...
... ( Derrida's concept of " iterability " ) , two things extinguished by death . Therefore , Qohelet's meditation on death examined in both content and form becomes an exploration of the limits of signification . The last chapter will ...
Contenido
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Chapter 3 FRAGMENTS OF QOHELETS BODY | 34 |
Chapter 4 QOHELET IN PLEASURE AND PAIN | 53 |
Chapter 5 IN LOVE AND GENDER TROUBLE | 74 |
Chapter 6 DECOMPOSING QOHELET | 88 |
Chapter 7 READING THE EPILOGUE THROUGH THIS BODY | 103 |
Chapter 8 DEPARTURES | 122 |
Bibliography | 124 |
Index of References | 134 |
Index of Authors | 138 |
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(Per)mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
(Per)mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
(Per)mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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