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Per-Mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the Book

Reading the Body in the Book [Hardback]

by Jennifer L. Koosed

    • Author

      Jennifer L. Koosed

    • Book Format

      hardback

    • Publisher

      Continuum

    • Published

      May 2006

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    Per-Mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the Book

    Today's Price £134.89

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    Product Description

    "Permutations of Qohelet" is an exploration of 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. He 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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    • Author

      Jennifer L. Koosed

    • Book Format

      hardback

    • Publisher

      Continuum

    • Published

      May 2006

    • Weight

      386g

    • Page Count

      150

    • Dimensions

      153 x 229 x 13 mm

    • ISBN

      9780567026323

    • ISBN-10

      0567026329

    • Eden Code

      119205

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    • Author/Creator: Jennifer L. Koosed

    • ISBN: 9780567026323

    • Publisher: Continuum

    • Release Date: May 2006

    • Weight: 386g

    • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 13 mm

    • Eden Code: 119205

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