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Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place

Autor Elaine T. James
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 aug 2017
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190619015
ISBN-10: 0190619015
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 155 x 236 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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In this elegant study, James deftly maps the multifaceted landscapes of the Song with a combination of expert poetic analysis and nuanced interpretation, along with judicious use of ancient Near Eastern archaeological and topographical evidence and current ecological and environmental perspectives. Though primarily explicating the Song of Songs in its literary, social, and eco-historical context, this study offers bracing, delectable food for thought regarding a responsible "ethics of care" amidst our pressing ecological crisis. I highly recommend this volume; it is guaranteed to expand one's horizons on this provocative biblical book.
Landscapes of the Song of Songs is a superb study of the co-constitutive relationship of land and humanity and of their lyrical presentation in the Song. Her emphasis on the blurring of human/land boundaries through cultivation and care (both physical and metaphorical) is a welcome corrective to the dominant trend of "nature" and "culture" in binary opposition. This book makes a welcome addition on the shelf of anyone interested in land-oriented or more broadly ecological approaches to the HB, and her detailed close readings provide excellent fodder for the scholar of biblical poetry in general or the Song in particular to graze upon.
Elaine T. James brings a novel approach to the poetics of the Song of Songs (hereafter, the Song) by focusing on the text's evocation of various types of landscapes ... This book's unique contribution is to show that the Song elaborates a vision of what it might mean to love one's land, which is to see it with affection and to intervene in it with care (151). James is at her best when she is explicating the poetry of the Song by analogy with other artistic expressions, ancient and modern.

Notă biografică

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