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Lethal love : feminist literary readings of biblical love stories / Mieke Bal.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Indiana studies in biblical literaturePublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �1987.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 141 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585019630
  • 9780585019635
Uniform titles:
  • Femmes imaginaires. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lethal love.DDC classification:
  • 220.6/088042 19
LOC classification:
  • BS575 .B2913 1987eb
Other classification:
  • 11.41
  • B978
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Rev. translation of: Femmes imaginaires.

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

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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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