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Lethal love :

Bal, Mieke, 1946-

Lethal love : feminist literary readings of biblical love stories / Mieke Bal. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �1987. - 1 online resource (vii, 141 pages). - Indiana studies in biblical literature . - Indiana studies in biblical literature. .

Rev. translation of: Femmes imaginaires.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-136) and index.

1. 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 text -- The use of symmetry -- The use of frames -- The use of the subject -- The use of competition -- 2. Delilah decomposed: Samson's talking cure and the rhetoric of subjectivity -- Reading heroes -- Questions asked and problems revealed -- The emergence of the hero -- Samson and Delilah -- Samson's death -- Who is Samson? -- Samson, patriarchy, and social reality -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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 path -- Tamar from father to son, or on subversion -- Juxtaposition, or similarity behind displacement -- Onan's offspring, or how to conceive safely -- Tamar's matchmaking: the mirror stage -- 5. Sexuality, sin, and sorrow: the emergence of the female character -- Characterizing character -- The emergence of 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.

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English.

0585019630 9780585019635




Bible--Hermeneutics.
Bible--Feminist criticism.
Bible--Herm�eneutique.
Bible--Feminist criticism.
Bible--Hermeneutics.
Bible.
Bibel.
Bibel.


Women in the Bible.
Criticism.
Bible and feminism.
Femmes dans la Bible.
Critique.
Bible et f�eminisme.
Amour dans la Bible.
Sexualit�e dans la Bible.
RELIGION--Biblical Reference--Quotations.
Women in the Bible.
Bible and feminism.
Criticism.
Bible and feminism.
Criticism.
Feminist criticism.
Hermeneutics.
Women in the Bible.
Feministische Theologie.
Exegese.
Liebesgeschichte.
Feministische Theologie.
Exegese.
Liebesgeschichte.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

BS575 / .B2913 1987eb

220.6/088042