(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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... Human Religious aspects . 3. Identity ( Psychology ) I. Title . II . Series . BS1475.52.K66 2006 223'.806 — dc22 Printed in the United States of America 06 07 08 09 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2005026039 CONTENTS Acknowledgments ...
... Human Religious aspects . 3. Identity ( Psychology ) I. Title . II . Series . BS1475.52.K66 2006 223'.806 — dc22 Printed in the United States of America 06 07 08 09 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2005026039 CONTENTS Acknowledgments ...
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... humanity . For all deeds God will bring into judgment including every concealed thing , whether good or evil " ( 12 : 13-14 ) ; and , " To all the same fate comes , to the righteous and to the wicked , to the good , and to the clean and ...
... humanity . For all deeds God will bring into judgment including every concealed thing , whether good or evil " ( 12 : 13-14 ) ; and , " To all the same fate comes , to the righteous and to the wicked , to the good , and to the clean and ...
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... human bodies in creation's drama take center stage , other bodies play key roles too . Animals and plants actually get the story rolling when the snake initiates a conversation with the woman about a piece of fruit ( Gen 3 : 1-7 ) . The ...
... human bodies in creation's drama take center stage , other bodies play key roles too . Animals and plants actually get the story rolling when the snake initiates a conversation with the woman about a piece of fruit ( Gen 3 : 1-7 ) . The ...
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... [ human embodiment ] , the most obvious of things , is one of the most perplex- ing . " 34 And Judith Butler confesses at the opening of Bodies that Matter : I began writing this book by trying to consider the materiality of the body only ...
... [ human embodiment ] , the most obvious of things , is one of the most perplex- ing . " 34 And Judith Butler confesses at the opening of Bodies that Matter : I began writing this book by trying to consider the materiality of the body only ...
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... human and the animal . Death comes for all . Qohelet then enacts this inevitable decay of the body through a decay of the text . The physical body and the body of the book are intertwined . At the level of the textual body , meaning ...
... human and the animal . Death comes for all . Qohelet then enacts this inevitable decay of the body through a decay of the text . The physical body and the body of the book are intertwined . At the level of the textual body , meaning ...
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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