Download e-book for iPad: The Artifice of Love: Grotesque Bodies in the Song of Songs by Fiona Black

By Fiona Black

ISBN-10: 082646985X

ISBN-13: 9780826469854

The fans' expressions of mutual affection and wish within the music of Songs contain intimate and particular poetic descriptions of the physique. those are tough to interpret as the imagery used is cryptic, drawing on probably incongruous elements of nature, structure and struggle. Biblical scholarship often expresses a few pain or embarrassment over this language, but mostly continues the view that it's going to be interpreted absolutely as a complimentary and loving description of the physique. If learn with out this hermeneutic, besides the fact that, the imagery looks to build nonsensical and ridiculous photos of the human shape, which elevate attention-grabbing questions, and pose sure demanding situations, for the Song's readers.

Fiona Black addresses the challenging nature of the Song's physique imagery through the use of the creative and literary build of the ugly physique as a heuristic. The ensuing interpreting investigates a few concerns for the tune which are usually left to the margins, specifically, the Song's presentation of hope, its politics of gender, and the have an effect on of the textual content. The publication concludes with the id of a few implications of this examining, together with the production of a brand new framework within which to appreciate the relevance of the Song's imagery for its presentation of love.

This is quantity 12 within the Gender, tradition, Theory subseries and quantity 392 within the Journal for the research of the previous testomony Supplement series.

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18 The Artifice of Love Along with the word play goes the play of images, the goal of both being to ‘multiply short circuits’, as Breton says in the second manifesto (1930), that is, to sabotage as frequently and as definitively as possible the usual ‘realistic insanities’ and to show what is on the other side of the accepted reality. The surrealist image is necessarily shocking – it destroys the conventional laws of association and logic, so that the objects which compose it, instead of seeming to fit side by side naturally and normally, ‘shriek at finding themselves together’.

He remarked of reading it: [I]f those whom we have called children were to come on these passages, it may be that they would derive neither profit nor much harm, either from reading the text itself, or from going through the necessary explanations. But if any man who lives only after the flesh should approach it, to such a one the reading of this Scripture will be the occasion of no small hazard and danger. For he, not knowing how to hear love’s language in purity and with chaste ears, will twist the whole manner of his hearing of it away from the inner spiritual man and on to the outward and carnal; and it will be turned away from the spirit to the flesh, and will foster carnal desires in himself, and it will seem to be the Divine Scriptures that are thus urging and egging him on to fleshly lust.

Rather, it would seem that the volume and variety of work that has grown up around the work testifies to the enduring interpretive ‘problem’ of these texts, which has never really been definitively ‘settled’ to anyone’s satisfaction. The Descriptions Descriptions of the lovers’ bodies in the Song of Songs can be found scattered throughout the book and come in a number of formats. 15 These are concentrated images that 15 I delineate the was[f according to where each description seems logically to begin and end.

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