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Journeys in the Songscape

Space and the Song of Songs

by Christopher Meredith

  • Hardback
  • 216 pages
  • Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

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The poetic world of the Song of Songs is a famously heady and distortive landscape, filled with bright sunlit rills, nocturnal cityscapes, and fecund bodies laid out like kingdoms. But what does the Song's use and abuse of spatial relationships tell us about its subject matter, and what do its strange panoramas tell us about literary space more broadly? Directly challenging recent methodological trends in biblical spatial studies, Journeys in the Songscape uses a range of innovative critical tools to explore, map and critique poetic space in the Song of Songs. Taking the reader on a series of journeys across the Song's gendered, rural, urban and bodily spaces, Meredith argues that the worlds that spring up between the Song's lovers are all subtle reimaginings of the space between the biblical page and its own readers, and that at the heart of the Song is a (con)fusion of the dynamics of loving with the experience of reading. Love is at work in the Song, says Meredith, but it is not its subject so much as a sign under which collusions of power, textuality, space and subjectivity labour. The Song's world speaks not only to sexual relationships, then, but to the structure of language itself; textual spaces do not organize textual meaning but rather image its fundamental instability. Journeys in the Songscape is a bold new literary treatment of the Song of Songs, but it is also a rethinking of what we mean by the term 'literary space', and represents a playful incitement to reconsider how critical tools are put to use in apprehending space as a literary construct.
Journeys in the Songscape and Journeys in the Songscape: Space and the Song of Songs
Journeys in the Songscape: Space and the Song of SongsJourneys in the Songscape

  • Author

    Christopher Meredith

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Sheffield Phoenix Press

  • Published

    May 2013

  • Weight

    482g

  • Page Count

    216

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781907534850

  • ISBN-10

    1907534857

  • Eden Code

    4249759

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