Landscapes of the Song of Songs

Poetry and Place

Elaine T. James (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-061901-5 (ISBN)

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Landscapes of the Song of Songs is an interdisciplinary study that develops a theory of landscape to explore the Song's conceptualization of the natural world. New readings of the Song's poetry reveal how it imagines human lovers enfolded in complex relationships of fragility and care.

In this masterful new study of the ancient poetry of The Song of Songs, Elaine T. James explores the Song's underlying interest in the natural world. Engaging with the fields of geography, landscape architecture, and literature, James critiques the tendency of scholars to reify a perceived dichotomy between "nature" and "culture" and instead argues that the poetic attention to landscape indicates an awareness of a viewer. Nature is here a poetic device that informs James's close-readings of agrarianism, gardens, cities, social control, and feminism and the gaze in the Song. With this two-fold emphasis on landscape and lyric, Landscape of the Song of Songs shows how the Song persistently envisions a world in which human lovers are embedded in the natural world, complexly enfolded in relationships of fragility and care.

Elaine T. James is Assistant Professor of Theology, St. Catherine University

1. Introduction: Landscape and Lyric
2. The Agrarian Landscape
3. The Garden
4. The Cityscape
5. The Map of the Body
6. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 236 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	0-19-061901-5 / 0190619015
ISBN-13	978-0-19-061901-5 / 9780190619015
Zustand	Neuware