(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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... autobiography ( " I " language ) , and also through the construction of Qohelet's body . There is no voice without this body in and of the text . Who is Qohelet ? This is Qohelet - the body of the book and the body in the book . The ...
... autobiography ( " I " language ) , and also through the construction of Qohelet's body . There is no voice without this body in and of the text . Who is Qohelet ? This is Qohelet - the body of the book and the body in the book . The ...
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... autobiography , " Which body ? I have several . " 30 Body Definition In pursuit of my query about how the book of Qohelet creates such a strong sense of the speaker that this speaker has been conflated with an author , theories that ...
... autobiography , " Which body ? I have several . " 30 Body Definition In pursuit of my query about how the book of Qohelet creates such a strong sense of the speaker that this speaker has been conflated with an author , theories that ...
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... autobiographies are not as transparent as is generally assumed . Examining contemporary literary theories of autobiography , which have been shaped by the ideas of identity promulgated by Lacan , as well as the ideas of language ...
... autobiographies are not as transparent as is generally assumed . Examining contemporary literary theories of autobiography , which have been shaped by the ideas of identity promulgated by Lacan , as well as the ideas of language ...
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... autobiography below . Commentators quickly move to determine the historical " I " and then read accordingly . I propose to read Qohelet as a fictional autobiography but not in a manner that ( ab ) uses the text to get to the author ...
... autobiography below . Commentators quickly move to determine the historical " I " and then read accordingly . I propose to read Qohelet as a fictional autobiography but not in a manner that ( ab ) uses the text to get to the author ...
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... autobiography , this chapter will examine the language of selfhood in Qohelet . Its " I " is elusive , its genre unstable , its name not quite proper . What's in a Name ? Qohelet tells us who he is.3 The opening lines of the book of ...
... autobiography , this chapter will examine the language of selfhood in Qohelet . Its " I " is elusive , its genre unstable , its name not quite proper . What's in a Name ? Qohelet tells us who he is.3 The opening lines of the book of ...
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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