(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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... contexts , and it only endures through the possibility of its future repetition.47 For these reasons , a word can never be completely mastered by the individual that speaks at any given time . But rather than this signaling a split ...
... contexts , and it only endures through the possibility of its future repetition.47 For these reasons , a word can never be completely mastered by the individual that speaks at any given time . But rather than this signaling a split ...
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... Context of Wisdom ( ed . Antoon Schoors ; Leuven : Leuven University Press , 1998 ) , 61-92 ; and Craig Bartholomew , Reading Ecclesiastes : Old Testament Exegesis and Hermeneutical Theory ( Rome : Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico ...
... Context of Wisdom ( ed . Antoon Schoors ; Leuven : Leuven University Press , 1998 ) , 61-92 ; and Craig Bartholomew , Reading Ecclesiastes : Old Testament Exegesis and Hermeneutical Theory ( Rome : Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico ...
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... context . Consequently , its political commitments are the source of its philosophical critique , not vice versa as it is with postmodern- ism.60 Despite the different directions of the approach , both feminism and post- modernism share ...
... context . Consequently , its political commitments are the source of its philosophical critique , not vice versa as it is with postmodern- ism.60 Despite the different directions of the approach , both feminism and post- modernism share ...
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... contexts . 64 Within ( de ) construction is both destruction and construction , and these two activities are held in tension . The theorists I include in my book do not speak with one voice , nor do they all fit comfortably within the ...
... contexts . 64 Within ( de ) construction is both destruction and construction , and these two activities are held in tension . The theorists I include in my book do not speak with one voice , nor do they all fit comfortably within the ...
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... context , circumstance , and therefore change : Internal division of the trait , impurity , corruption , contamination , decomposition , per- version , deformation , even cancerisation , generous proliferation or degenerescence . All ...
... context , circumstance , and therefore change : Internal division of the trait , impurity , corruption , contamination , decomposition , per- version , deformation , even cancerisation , generous proliferation or degenerescence . All ...
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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