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The Good, the Bold, and the Beautiful - The Story of Susanna and its Renaissance Interpretations (Hardcover)
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The Good, the Bold, and the Beautiful - The Story of Susanna and its Renaissance Interpretations (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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The story of Susanna and the Elders is one of the most interpreted
and reproduced tales from the "Apocrypha". In its compact
narrative, it touches on attempted rape, female sexuality, abuse of
power, punishment for the wicked, and voyeurism. "The Good, the
Bold, the Beautiful" argues that the story of Susanna was written
in the first century BCE, and Clanton provides a brief description
of that century. He performs a narrative-rhetorical reading of
Susanna, and illustrates that the story uses sexual anxiety and
desire to set up a moral dilemma for Susanna. That moral dilemma is
resolved in two ways: Susanna's refusal to allow herself to be
raped, and Daniel's intervention. Clanton argues that although the
story has many mimetic features, it is the thematic function that
is overriding, especially after Daniel's appearance. Put another
way, the story's emphasis on Susanna, the Elders, and Daniel as
"plausible people" is secondary to its stress on what those
characters represent and the message it is relaying through those
representations. Clanton analyzes chronologically selected
aesthetic interpretations of the story found in the Renaissance. He
shows that the prevailing artistic interpretation during the
Renaissance focused on the mimetic, sexual aspects of the story
because it deals with issues of patronage, and sex/gender that were
current at the time. "The Good, the Bold, the Beautiful" argues
that several Renaissance renderings provide counter readings that
focus more on the value and themes in the story. These renderings
provide models for readers to resist the sexually exploitative
features of both the narrative and its interpretations. Clanton
reflects on the need for the reader to resist potentially harmful
interpretation, especially those that focus on the mimetic level of
the story's rhetoric.
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