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On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond - "The Most Beautiful Woman" (Hardcover)
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On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond - "The Most Beautiful Woman" (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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Vita Daphna Arbel uses critical theories of gender to offer an
alternative reading of the multilayered conceptualization of the
Song of Song's feminine protagonist: "the most beautiful woman".
Arbel treats "the most beautiful woman" as a culturally constructed
and performed representation of "woman," and situates this
representation within the cultural- discursive contexts in which
the Song partly emerged. She examines the gender norms and cultural
ideologies it both reflects and constructs, and considers the
manner in which this complex representation disrupts rigid,
ahistorical notions of femininity, and how it consequently
indirectly characterizes "womanhood" as dynamic and diverse.
Finally, Arbel examines the reception and impact of these ideas on
later conceptualizations of the Song of Songs' female protagonist
with a heuristic examination of Mark Chagall's Song of Songs
painting cycle, Le Cantique des Cantiques. These
compositions-selected for their diverse depictions of the Song's
protagonist, their impact on European art, and their vast
popularity and bearing in the broader cultural
imagination-illustrate a fascinating dialogue between the present
and the past about the "most beautiful woman" and about multiple
femininities.
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