(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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... Death 88 88 91 94 100 Chapter 7 READING THE EPILOGUE THROUGH THIS BODY 103 A History of Athletic Virtuosity 106 Examining the Body of the Book A Second Opinion The Ritual Body Qohelet's Theology Chapter 8 108 110 111 115 DEPARTURES 122 ...
... Death 88 88 91 94 100 Chapter 7 READING THE EPILOGUE THROUGH THIS BODY 103 A History of Athletic Virtuosity 106 Examining the Body of the Book A Second Opinion The Ritual Body Qohelet's Theology Chapter 8 108 110 111 115 DEPARTURES 122 ...
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... Death in Qoheleth and Egyptian Biographies of the Late Period ( Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature , 1999 ) , 112 . 15. Eric S. Christianson , A Time to Tell : Narrative Strategies in Ecclesiastes ( JSOTSup 280 ; Sheffield ...
... Death in Qoheleth and Egyptian Biographies of the Late Period ( Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature , 1999 ) , 112 . 15. Eric S. Christianson , A Time to Tell : Narrative Strategies in Ecclesiastes ( JSOTSup 280 ; Sheffield ...
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... death and dismemberment ) of the author came from post - structuralist theorists . Roland Barthes , a prominent French post - struc- turalist , wrote an influential article entitled " The Death of the Author . " Although writing after ...
... death and dismemberment ) of the author came from post - structuralist theorists . Roland Barthes , a prominent French post - struc- turalist , wrote an influential article entitled " The Death of the Author . " Although writing after ...
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... death the woman . She is a snare and her heart is nets , her hands are fetters . " There will also be reference to how the female body is represented in the discourses on pleasure in other parts of the book 1. Introducing Qohelet 11 ...
... death the woman . She is a snare and her heart is nets , her hands are fetters . " There will also be reference to how the female body is represented in the discourses on pleasure in other parts of the book 1. Introducing Qohelet 11 ...
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... Death in Qohelet entails two themes : the loss of memory and the flattening of differences . At the level of the physical body , no one is remem- bered after death , and there is no differentiation made in death between the wise and the ...
... Death in Qohelet entails two themes : the loss of memory and the flattening of differences . At the level of the physical body , no one is remem- bered after death , and there is no differentiation made in death between the wise and the ...
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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