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Journeys in the Songscape - Space and the Song of Songs (Hardcover, New)
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Journeys in the Songscape - Space and the Song of Songs (Hardcover, New)
Series: Hebrew Bible Monographs, 53
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The poetic world of the Song of Songs is a famously heady and
distortive landscape, filled with bright sunlit rills, nocturnal
cityscapes, and fecund bodies laid out like kingdoms. But what does
the Song's use and abuse of spatial relationships tell us about its
subject matter, and what do its strange panoramas tell us about
literary space more broadly? Directly challenging recent
methodological trends in biblical spatial studies, Journeys in the
Songscape uses a range of innovative critical tools to explore, map
and critique poetic space in the Song of Songs. Taking the reader
on a series of journeys across the Song's gendered, rural, urban
and bodily spaces, Meredith argues that the worlds that spring up
between the Song's lovers are all subtle reimaginings of the space
between the biblical page and its own readers, and that at the
heart of the Song is a (con)fusion of the dynamics of loving with
the experience of reading. Love is at work in the Song, says
Meredith, but it is not its subject so much as a sign under which
collusions of power, textuality, space and subjectivity labour. The
Song's world speaks not only to sexual relationships, then, but to
the structure of language itself; textual spaces do not organize
textual meaning but rather image its fundamental instability.
Journeys in the Songscape is a bold new literary treatment of the
Song of Songs, but it is also a rethinking of what we mean by the
term 'literary space', and represents a playful incitement to
reconsider how critical tools are put to use in apprehending space
as a literary construct.
General
Imprint: |
Sheffield Phoenix Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Hebrew Bible Monographs, 53 |
Release date: |
May 2013 |
First published: |
May 2013 |
Authors: |
Christopher Meredith
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Laminated cover
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Pages: |
216 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-907534-85-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-907534-85-7 |
Barcode: |
9781907534850 |
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