James Elaine T. (Assitant Professor Assitant Professor St. Catherine University) - Landscapes Of The Song Of Songs Poetry And Place - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Landscapes Of The Song Of Songs Poetry And Place
Author(s): James Elaine T. (Assitant Professor Assitant Professor St. Catherine University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190619015
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 7/3/2017
Category: Judaism: Sacred Texts