Lethal Love : Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories

Name: Lethal Love : Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories
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ISBN: 9780253333230

ISBN-10: 0253333237

ISBN-13: 9780253333230

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mieke Bal

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List price: $29.95
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 152
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
The Emergence of the Lethal Woman, or the Use of Hermeneutic Models
Pregnancy and the Limits of Power
The Use of Interpretation
The Use of Form
The Use of Frame-Theory
The Use of Narratology
The Use of the TextThe Use of Symmetry
The Use of Frames
The Use of the Subject
The Use of Competition
Delilah Decomposed: Samson+s Talking Cureand the Thetoric of Subjectivity
Reading Heroes
Questions Asked and Problems Revealed
The Emergence of the HeroSamson and DelilahSamson+s Death
Who Is Samson?
Samson, Patriarchy, and Social Reality
Heroism and Proper Names, or the Fruits of Analogy
Balancing the Tension
Starting from a Detail
Narrativization of the Proper Name
In Search of the Subject
In Search of Foundations, or the Subjects versus the Law
The Unconscious Performing Speech Acts: Symptoms Reflecting Reflection
One Woman, Many Men, and the Dialectic of Chronology
The Limits of Higher Criticism
On the Margins of Anachrony: Paralepsis, or the Deviation from the Straight PathTamar from Father to Son, or On SubversionJuxtaposition, or Similarity behind DisplacementOnan+s Offspring, or How to Conceive SafelyTamar+s Matchmaking: The Mirror Stage
Sexuality, Sin, and Sorrow: The Emergence of the Female Character
Characterizing Character
The Emergence of a Myth: Collocation
The Emergence of the Human Body: Unaccomplishment
The Emergence of the Female Body: Sexual Difference
The Emergence of Activity: Sin?
The Emergence of Character: Sorrow
The Effect of Naming
Afterword
References
Index
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