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Landscapes of the Song of Songs

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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.

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ISBN: 9780190619015
Publication date: 3rd August 2017
Author: Elaine T. (Assitant Professor, Assitant Professor, St. Catherine University) James
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 248 pages
Genres: Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings
Poetry