(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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... writing . One winter , we devised a plan that came to be called the " Dissertation Tour USA . " During the summer of 2001 , we put all of our belongings in storage and loaded up my red sports - like car with laptops , books , and ...
... writing . One winter , we devised a plan that came to be called the " Dissertation Tour USA . " During the summer of 2001 , we put all of our belongings in storage and loaded up my red sports - like car with laptops , books , and ...
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... writing after New Criticism's shuttling of the author , Barthes finds the idea of the author so pervasive that this figure still holds sway over interpretation : The image of literature to be found in ordinary culture is tyrannically ...
... writing after New Criticism's shuttling of the author , Barthes finds the idea of the author so pervasive that this figure still holds sway over interpretation : The image of literature to be found in ordinary culture is tyrannically ...
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... Writing on religion and the body , Sarah Coakley underlines this problem : The notable explosion of thought and literature on the subject of the " body " in the last decades has begged a question of definition which is not so easily ...
... Writing on religion and the body , Sarah Coakley underlines this problem : The notable explosion of thought and literature on the subject of the " body " in the last decades has begged a question of definition which is not so easily ...
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... writing . Renan refrained from deciphering the cryptogram that he proposed . Frank Zimmermann makes a similar argument , though he does offer a trans- lation . 12 According to Zimmermann , qhlt is a mistranslation of the Aramaic knsh ...
... writing . Renan refrained from deciphering the cryptogram that he proposed . Frank Zimmermann makes a similar argument , though he does offer a trans- lation . 12 According to Zimmermann , qhlt is a mistranslation of the Aramaic knsh ...
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... writing but not heard in speech . Derrida uses this word as a way of indicating three interre- lated notions . As summarized by Leitch : " ( 1 ) ' to differ ' — to be unlike or dissimilar in nature , quality , or form ; ( 2 ) ' differre ...
... writing but not heard in speech . Derrida uses this word as a way of indicating three interre- lated notions . As summarized by Leitch : " ( 1 ) ' to differ ' — to be unlike or dissimilar in nature , quality , or form ; ( 2 ) ' differre ...
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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