(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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... creates a speaker , the identity of the speaker as well.5 But neither texts nor identities are disembodied . Both are material objects . Language is an organ of the body , and this physicality manifests itself in writ- ing . The body is ...
... creates a speaker , the identity of the speaker as well.5 But neither texts nor identities are disembodied . Both are material objects . Language is an organ of the body , and this physicality manifests itself in writ- ing . The body is ...
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... creates a variety of bodies in the first few chapters — astronomical , zoological , botanical , geological , and anthropologi- cal ( Gen 1-3 ) . Although the human bodies in creation's drama take center stage , other bodies play key ...
... creates a variety of bodies in the first few chapters — astronomical , zoological , botanical , geological , and anthropologi- cal ( Gen 1-3 ) . Although the human bodies in creation's drama take center stage , other bodies play key ...
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... create a personality so vivid that the history of scholar- ship has been dominated by a conflation of this personality with the author ( s ) of the text , and this author ( s ) passionately pursued ? Elaine Scarry opens Dreaming by the ...
... create a personality so vivid that the history of scholar- ship has been dominated by a conflation of this personality with the author ( s ) of the text , and this author ( s ) passionately pursued ? Elaine Scarry opens Dreaming by the ...
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... created by texts . She rightly claims and then demonstrates that " Reading entails an immense labor of imaginative construction . " 21 Though Scarry meticulously documents how readers are compelled to create images of wind - swept ...
... created by texts . She rightly claims and then demonstrates that " Reading entails an immense labor of imaginative construction . " 21 Though Scarry meticulously documents how readers are compelled to create images of wind - swept ...
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... creates such a strong sense of the speaker that this speaker has been conflated with an author , theories that examine the connections between language and the body will be employed . 25. See Vincent B. Leitch , American Literary ...
... creates such a strong sense of the speaker that this speaker has been conflated with an author , theories that examine the connections between language and the body will be employed . 25. See Vincent B. Leitch , American Literary ...
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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