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Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories

Mieke Bal

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Description:"Lethal Love" is, in Mieke Bal's words, "first and foremost a study of biblical love stories and how we read them." Bal reads five familiar love stories from the Bible -- David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah, Ruth and Boaz, Judah and Tamar, and Adam and Eve. -- differently. In the past, readings of these stories have represented woman' love as lethal -- women are victimizers to be avoided lest one be killed by their love. Ball calls into question these interpretations of the past, revealing a patriarchal ideology of interpretation that has dominated. Borrowing interpretive tools from semiotics and pyschoanalysis, Bal deconstructs this dominant ideology by stressing the different -- the multivalent, heterogeneous meanings possible when one pays close attention to the text. Her powerful, exciting interpretations resonate deeply and raise new possibilities for the ways we read the love stories of the Bible."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories. To get started finding Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 142

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ISBN: 0253204348

Description: "Lethal Love" is, in Mieke Bal's words, "first and foremost a study of biblical love stories and how we read them." Bal reads five familiar love stories from the Bible -- David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah, Ruth and Boaz, Judah and Tamar, and Adam and Eve. -- differently. In the past, readings of these stories have represented woman' love as lethal -- women are victimizers to be avoided lest one be killed by their love. Ball calls into question these interpretations of the past, revealing a patriarchal ideology of interpretation that has dominated. Borrowing interpretive tools from semiotics and pyschoanalysis, Bal deconstructs this dominant ideology by stressing the different -- the multivalent, heterogeneous meanings possible when one pays close attention to the text. Her powerful, exciting interpretations resonate deeply and raise new possibilities for the ways we read the love stories of the Bible."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories. To get started finding Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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