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Feminist Revision and the Bible: The Unwritten Volume
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
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Description for Feminist Revision and the Bible: The Unwritten Volume
Paperback. Extends the feminist examination of western literature to the founding of patriarchal culture, the Bible. The book re-thinks certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic "readings" of biblical texts by 19th- and 20th-century women writers. Series: Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRCG; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 9. Weight in Grams: 218.
What happens when women writers re-imagine culture? How do feminists need that ur-text of patriarchy, the Bible? Unwritten volume: Re-thinking teh Bible attempts to re-think certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic "readings" of biblical texts by 19th and 20th century women writers. The author proposes that women writers relate to the Bible in complex ways, which both critique biblical misogyny and stem directly from elements of transgressive writing within scripture iteself. Ultimately Ostriker suggests that feminist reinterpretations of scripture are the inevitable consequence of spiritual values which ask us to turn from ... Read more
What happens when women writers re-imagine culture? How do feminists need that ur-text of patriarchy, the Bible? Unwritten volume: Re-thinking teh Bible attempts to re-think certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic "readings" of biblical texts by 19th and 20th century women writers. The author proposes that women writers relate to the Bible in complex ways, which both critique biblical misogyny and stem directly from elements of transgressive writing within scripture iteself. Ultimately Ostriker suggests that feminist reinterpretations of scripture are the inevitable consequence of spiritual values which ask us to turn from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Oxford
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631187981
SKU
V9780631187981
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About Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Alicia Ostriker is the author of seven volumes of poetry, as well as Vision and Verse in William Blake and an annotated edition of Blake's Complete Poems. Her work as a feminist critic includes Writing like a Woman and the widely influential and controversial Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America.
Reviews for Feminist Revision and the Bible: The Unwritten Volume
" Highly Recommended". Cross Currents "An essentially optimistic, as well as delightfully iconoclastic, reading of scripture." Church Times