(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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... refer to materiality takes place through a signifying process which , in its phenomenality , is always already material . In this sense , then , language and materiality are not opposed , for language both is and refers to that which is ...
... refer to materiality takes place through a signifying process which , in its phenomenality , is always already material . In this sense , then , language and materiality are not opposed , for language both is and refers to that which is ...
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... refers . For example , the signifier " tree , " composed of four phonemes , refers to the plant that generally grows quite tall and is characterized by a trunk and branches of bark with green leaves at the tips — the signified . Further ...
... refers . For example , the signifier " tree , " composed of four phonemes , refers to the plant that generally grows quite tall and is characterized by a trunk and branches of bark with green leaves at the tips — the signified . Further ...
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... refers directly to that which it names without the mediation of translation or definition . A " tree " may be inextricably entangled in a web of signifiers , but I am Jennifer Koosed . In his Superscript to Derrida's autobiography ...
... refers directly to that which it names without the mediation of translation or definition . A " tree " may be inextricably entangled in a web of signifiers , but I am Jennifer Koosed . In his Superscript to Derrida's autobiography ...
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... refers . The proper name exists in order to refer to someone in his or her absence , to stand alone and to stand in for , without the presence of its bearer.32 Death is simply a more permanent absence : " The name is made to do without ...
... refers . The proper name exists in order to refer to someone in his or her absence , to stand alone and to stand in for , without the presence of its bearer.32 Death is simply a more permanent absence : " The name is made to do without ...
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... refers to Solomon , except for three occasions when the phrase indicates another one of David's many sons ( 2 Sam 13 : 1 [ twice ] and 2 Chr 11:18 ) . Despite this evidence , the equation of Qohelet with Solomon is still an inter ...
... refers to Solomon , except for three occasions when the phrase indicates another one of David's many sons ( 2 Sam 13 : 1 [ twice ] and 2 Chr 11:18 ) . Despite this evidence , the equation of Qohelet with Solomon is still an inter ...
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 |
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