Hosea

by Landy, Francis

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Title Statements

Full title :Hosea / Francis Landy.

Summary

This reading of Hosea explores the book from a feminist, psychoanalytical and poetic perspective. What is God doing with a prostitute? How does the theme of prostitution relate to the abjection of the woman as the other, and the fantasy of sexual exstasy, precisely because she esapes patriarchal order? Where is the prophet situated in the dialectic of rage and desire that both seduces and condemns Israel? The rophet's voice is both masculine and femine, and poetically embodies the sensuality of wayward Israel. The ambiguity of voice is also that of the prophet's role, which is both to nurture Israel, as on its exodus from Egypt, and to be the trap that destroys it. The prolematic of voice and prophetic function is evident in the vivid dissection of Israel's social institutions, whose disintegration is inversely related to the centrality of the discussion in the structure of the book, and in the violent swings from deespair to impossible hope. The focus on immediate and uncontrollable entropy, manifest in extended tangled metaphors, that occupies the centre of the book, is framed in the outer chpaters by intertextual references to Israel's primordial vision, and the romantic distantiation of the Song of Songs, in which the erotic and poet is contradictions of the book find their perhaps ironic resolution. This is a corrected reprint of the 1995 edition.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Sheffield Phoenix Press
Place of Publication:Sheffield, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

Notes

"First published by Sheffield Academic Press, 1995"--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 218 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781905048984, 190504898X, 9781905048991, 1905048998
oclc:ocn567209546
LC Classification:BS1565.53
Dewey Decimal:224.606

Introduction -- Hosea 1.1-2.3 -- Hosea 2.4-25 -- Hosea 3 -- Hosea 4 -- Hosea 5 -- Hosea 6 -- Hosea 7 -- Hosea 8 -- Hosea 9 -- Hosea 10 -- Hosea 11 -- Hosea 12 -- Hosea 13.1-14.1 -- Hosea 14.2-10.