From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen
Autor Professor Marcia Pallyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780567694768
ISBN-10: 0567694763
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0567694763
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Sets Cohen's infamous relations with women in the context not only of romance or sex but the existential importance of the covenantal bond
Notă biografică
Marcia Pally is Professor in Multilingual Multicultural Studies at New York University, USA, and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the Theology Faculty at Humboldt University-Berlin (Germany), where she is now a regular Guest Professor.
Cuprins
Introduction and Biographical SketchChapter One: Theodicy: Arguments With God about Evil, Suffering, and God HimselfChapter Two: Covenantal Theology and its Place in Cohen's WorkChapter Three: From Covenantal Theology to Theodicy: Failing Covenant with God and Persons Chapter Four: Failing Covenant with God and Persons: Doubled Imagery in Cohen's WorkChapter Five: Those who did not fail covenant: Moses and Jesus-Cohen's Jewish and Christian ImageryChapter Six: The Double Bind That Is Not a Bond: Cohen and WomenChapter Seven: Betrayal of God, Betrayal of Persons, Political Betrayals-Cohen's TrinityConcluding Remarks: You Want It Darker and Thanks for the Dance-Cohen's Last CreedBibliographyIndex
Recenzii
Marcia Pally offers here an immensely rich theological interpretation of the work of legendary Canadian poet-musician Leonard Cohen. The key theological theme I see is Cohen's claim that we human beings were made for covenant with God and one another and yet the way we were made - or the way we have turned out - makes it immensely difficult for us to keep the very covenants that we need. So the human condition is tragic, and the tragedy may ultimately be traceable to the very God who alone is our source and our destiny. This book makes me want to marinate in the music and poetry, though not the lifestyle, of Leonard Cohen. It also deepens my immense appreciation for the impressive intellectual range of Marcia Pally. This is a tour de force.
Marcia Pally has written an absolutely brilliant and arresting book about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen. Cohen's lyrics have fascinated me for many years - a descendant of rabbis, he has done the remarkable thing of writing prophecy and social criticism into his lyrics. Marcia Pally's book analyzes his extraordinary talent. Please read it!
Drawing upon the entirety of Cohen's creative output, including his oft-overlooked novels, Marcia Pally takes Cohen seriously as a religious thinker, "a mystic for the post secular age," in the words of Aubrey Glazer. Pally swaps out Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Irving Layton and Federico García Lorca in favor of Rosenzweig, Heschel, Levinas, and Wolfson as she recontextualizes Cohen as a poet engaged in a lifelong wrestling match with the Almighty. The listener-or reader, in this case-comes out the winner.
From This Broken Hill I Sing to You is must reading for those like myself who are torn between our devotion to Leonard Cohen's work and our dismay at his personal history with women. By painstakingly charting the poet/singer's lifelong struggle to reconcile his covenantal relationships (with God and women) with his real-life behavior, Marcia Pally has forged a deeply compelling new covenant between Cohen and us, his acolytes. To which, I say Hallelujah!
Marcia Pally's From This Broken Hill I Sing to You is a superb book, from Moshe Halbertal's inspired foreword to the piercing last chapter on Leonard Cohen's last creed. The writing is sophisticated and accessible, fully up to the task of realizing the deep philosophic-anthropological and theological dimensions of Cohen's work. The subtitle of the book, God, Sex Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen, is only partly accurate - the book far more. There is a movement of the study of Cohen's terse verse, and this book summarizes that work well and advances it with a decided focus on Cohen's struggle with the tortured relationship between the mortal and the eternal. As someone whose relationship with "Old Priest" was rooted in theological discussions (Lurianic Kabbalah), it is such a pleasure to see his depth so beautifully and originally articulated.
I have always loved Leonard's work, and loved him personally, and knew that HE was the man along with Beatles, whose work would survive musically. Marcia Pally's masterful book reveals that as a poet, songwriter, philosopher and ultimate mensch, Leonard Cohen, his work and his spirit are here for ALL TIME!!
Marcia Pally has written an absolutely brilliant and arresting book about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen. Cohen's lyrics have fascinated me for many years - a descendant of rabbis, he has done the remarkable thing of writing prophecy and social criticism into his lyrics. Marcia Pally's book analyzes his extraordinary talent. Please read it!
Drawing upon the entirety of Cohen's creative output, including his oft-overlooked novels, Marcia Pally takes Cohen seriously as a religious thinker, "a mystic for the post secular age," in the words of Aubrey Glazer. Pally swaps out Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Irving Layton and Federico García Lorca in favor of Rosenzweig, Heschel, Levinas, and Wolfson as she recontextualizes Cohen as a poet engaged in a lifelong wrestling match with the Almighty. The listener-or reader, in this case-comes out the winner.
From This Broken Hill I Sing to You is must reading for those like myself who are torn between our devotion to Leonard Cohen's work and our dismay at his personal history with women. By painstakingly charting the poet/singer's lifelong struggle to reconcile his covenantal relationships (with God and women) with his real-life behavior, Marcia Pally has forged a deeply compelling new covenant between Cohen and us, his acolytes. To which, I say Hallelujah!
Marcia Pally's From This Broken Hill I Sing to You is a superb book, from Moshe Halbertal's inspired foreword to the piercing last chapter on Leonard Cohen's last creed. The writing is sophisticated and accessible, fully up to the task of realizing the deep philosophic-anthropological and theological dimensions of Cohen's work. The subtitle of the book, God, Sex Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen, is only partly accurate - the book far more. There is a movement of the study of Cohen's terse verse, and this book summarizes that work well and advances it with a decided focus on Cohen's struggle with the tortured relationship between the mortal and the eternal. As someone whose relationship with "Old Priest" was rooted in theological discussions (Lurianic Kabbalah), it is such a pleasure to see his depth so beautifully and originally articulated.
I have always loved Leonard's work, and loved him personally, and knew that HE was the man along with Beatles, whose work would survive musically. Marcia Pally's masterful book reveals that as a poet, songwriter, philosopher and ultimate mensch, Leonard Cohen, his work and his spirit are here for ALL TIME!!