Sharon Moughtin‐Mumby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199239085
- eISBN:
- 9780191716560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239085.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the persuading power of metaphors. It then outlines sexual and marital metaphorical language in traditional scholarship, feminist scholarship, ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the persuading power of metaphors. It then outlines sexual and marital metaphorical language in traditional scholarship, feminist scholarship, and literary-historical approaches. The chapter discusses a cognitive, contextual approach to metaphorical language, a literary-historical approach, and a diachronic approach.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the persuading power of metaphors. It then outlines sexual and marital metaphorical language in traditional scholarship, feminist scholarship, and literary-historical approaches. The chapter discusses a cognitive, contextual approach to metaphorical language, a literary-historical approach, and a diachronic approach.
Sharon Moughtin‐Mumby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199239085
- eISBN:
- 9780191716560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239085.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter explores sexual and marital metaphorical language in Hosea 4-14. It is shown that Hosea 4-4's distinctive use of the ‘prostitution’ focus provides an introduction to prophetic sexual and ...
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This chapter explores sexual and marital metaphorical language in Hosea 4-14. It is shown that Hosea 4-4's distinctive use of the ‘prostitution’ focus provides an introduction to prophetic sexual and marital metaphorical language, starkly exposing how far theories of ‘cultic prostitution’ have underestimated this poetry's audacious use of ‘prostitution’ as a metaphorical focus. Hosea 4-14' also introduces the difficulties raised by prophetic sexual and marital metaphorical language for current readers.Less
This chapter explores sexual and marital metaphorical language in Hosea 4-14. It is shown that Hosea 4-4's distinctive use of the ‘prostitution’ focus provides an introduction to prophetic sexual and marital metaphorical language, starkly exposing how far theories of ‘cultic prostitution’ have underestimated this poetry's audacious use of ‘prostitution’ as a metaphorical focus. Hosea 4-14' also introduces the difficulties raised by prophetic sexual and marital metaphorical language for current readers.
Sharon Moughtin‐Mumby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199239085
- eISBN:
- 9780191716560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239085.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter explores sexual and marital metaphorical language in Ezekiel. It argues that Ezekiel 16 and 23 confront current readers with acute problems not only for their explicitly offensive, even ...
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This chapter explores sexual and marital metaphorical language in Ezekiel. It argues that Ezekiel 16 and 23 confront current readers with acute problems not only for their explicitly offensive, even pornographic language, but also for their disturbing assumptions that female sexuality is inherently defiling, and that victims of sexual abuse are set on an inescapable and destructive path. Perhaps equally disquieting is the power of these narratives over traditional readings, which seem more than willing to comply with their dreadful propositions.Less
This chapter explores sexual and marital metaphorical language in Ezekiel. It argues that Ezekiel 16 and 23 confront current readers with acute problems not only for their explicitly offensive, even pornographic language, but also for their disturbing assumptions that female sexuality is inherently defiling, and that victims of sexual abuse are set on an inescapable and destructive path. Perhaps equally disquieting is the power of these narratives over traditional readings, which seem more than willing to comply with their dreadful propositions.
Sharon Moughtin‐Mumby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199239085
- eISBN:
- 9780191716560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239085.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter explores the sexual and marital metaphorical language in Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4. It argues that Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4 highlights the inadequacy of reading prophetic sexual and marital metaphors ...
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This chapter explores the sexual and marital metaphorical language in Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4. It argues that Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4 highlights the inadequacy of reading prophetic sexual and marital metaphors and similes as straightforward allusions to a marriage relationship between YHWH and the nation/city. This prophetic poetry underscores just how diverse and varied sexual and marital metaphorical language can be and how inadequate is the traditional characterization ‘the marriage metaphor’.Less
This chapter explores the sexual and marital metaphorical language in Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4. It argues that Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4 highlights the inadequacy of reading prophetic sexual and marital metaphors and similes as straightforward allusions to a marriage relationship between YHWH and the nation/city. This prophetic poetry underscores just how diverse and varied sexual and marital metaphorical language can be and how inadequate is the traditional characterization ‘the marriage metaphor’.
Sharon Moughtin‐Mumby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199239085
- eISBN:
- 9780191716560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239085.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter explores the sexual and martial metaphorical language in Isaiah. Its presents Isaiah's sexual and marital metaphorical language in a way that reflects an understanding of the book as ...
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This chapter explores the sexual and martial metaphorical language in Isaiah. Its presents Isaiah's sexual and marital metaphorical language in a way that reflects an understanding of the book as three discrete but interrelated parts, with chapters 40-55 emerging as a particularly distinctive voice. It is argued that Isaiah's metaphorical language is not only striking for its diversity, but also for its markedly positive character and the hope it brings to readers alert to its implications for the present time.Less
This chapter explores the sexual and martial metaphorical language in Isaiah. Its presents Isaiah's sexual and marital metaphorical language in a way that reflects an understanding of the book as three discrete but interrelated parts, with chapters 40-55 emerging as a particularly distinctive voice. It is argued that Isaiah's metaphorical language is not only striking for its diversity, but also for its markedly positive character and the hope it brings to readers alert to its implications for the present time.
Sharon Moughtin‐Mumby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199239085
- eISBN:
- 9780191716560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239085.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter explores sexual and martial metaphorical language in Hosea 1-3. It argues that the controversy over these three chapters stems from the adoption of four broad assumptions, which have ...
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This chapter explores sexual and martial metaphorical language in Hosea 1-3. It argues that the controversy over these three chapters stems from the adoption of four broad assumptions, which have demonstrated an impressive capacity to complicate this prophetic text. The first assumption is the belief that the storyline in chapters 1 and 3 must follow the same path as allegedly parallel stories in other prophetic books; the second is the conviction is that ‘missing details’ from chapters 1 and 3 can be found within the poetic chapter 2; the third is the perception that chapters 1 and 3 speak of the prophet's personal life; and the fourth is the consensus that in these two narratives Hosea represents YHWH, while Gomer represents Israel.Less
This chapter explores sexual and martial metaphorical language in Hosea 1-3. It argues that the controversy over these three chapters stems from the adoption of four broad assumptions, which have demonstrated an impressive capacity to complicate this prophetic text. The first assumption is the belief that the storyline in chapters 1 and 3 must follow the same path as allegedly parallel stories in other prophetic books; the second is the conviction is that ‘missing details’ from chapters 1 and 3 can be found within the poetic chapter 2; the third is the perception that chapters 1 and 3 speak of the prophet's personal life; and the fourth is the consensus that in these two narratives Hosea represents YHWH, while Gomer represents Israel.
Sharon Moughtin‐Mumby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199239085
- eISBN:
- 9780191716560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239085.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This concluding chapter reviews discussions in the preceding five chapters. It argues that a theme that repeatedly emerged throughout these discussions was the inability of the prophetic texts to ...
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This concluding chapter reviews discussions in the preceding five chapters. It argues that a theme that repeatedly emerged throughout these discussions was the inability of the prophetic texts to reverse their own negative sexual and marital metaphorical language. Each prophetic book attempted such a reversal in its own way, whether through the ‘turning’ of language in word-plays (Hosea 4-14), the introduction of ‘forgiveness’ for the female (Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4), the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezekiel), or the seduction of the female (Hosea 1-3). But in each of these cases such attempts created their own problems, rendering these texts highly unstable.Less
This concluding chapter reviews discussions in the preceding five chapters. It argues that a theme that repeatedly emerged throughout these discussions was the inability of the prophetic texts to reverse their own negative sexual and marital metaphorical language. Each prophetic book attempted such a reversal in its own way, whether through the ‘turning’ of language in word-plays (Hosea 4-14), the introduction of ‘forgiveness’ for the female (Jeremiah 2: 1-4: 4), the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezekiel), or the seduction of the female (Hosea 1-3). But in each of these cases such attempts created their own problems, rendering these texts highly unstable.
Sharon Moughtin-Mumby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199239085
- eISBN:
- 9780191716560
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239085.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This book considers the often unrecognised impact of different approaches to metaphor on readings of the prophtic sexual and marital metaphorical language. It outlines a practical and consciously ...
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This book considers the often unrecognised impact of different approaches to metaphor on readings of the prophtic sexual and marital metaphorical language. It outlines a practical and consciously simplified approach to metaphor, placing strong emphasis on the influence of literary context on metaphorical meaning. Drawing on this approach, Hosea 4-14, Jeremiah 2:1-4:4, Isaiah, Ezekiel 16 and 23, and Hosea 1-3 are examined with fresh eyes. The book reveals the way in which scholarship has repeatedly stifled the prophetic metaphorical language by reading it within the ‘default contexts’ of ‘the marriage metaphor’ and ‘cultic prostitution’, which for so many years have been simply assumed. Readers are encouraged instead to read these diverse metaphors and similes within their distinctive literary contexts in which they have the potential to rise vividly to life, provoking the question: how are we to respond to these disquieting, powerful texts in the midst of the Hebrew Bible?.Less
This book considers the often unrecognised impact of different approaches to metaphor on readings of the prophtic sexual and marital metaphorical language. It outlines a practical and consciously simplified approach to metaphor, placing strong emphasis on the influence of literary context on metaphorical meaning. Drawing on this approach, Hosea 4-14, Jeremiah 2:1-4:4, Isaiah, Ezekiel 16 and 23, and Hosea 1-3 are examined with fresh eyes. The book reveals the way in which scholarship has repeatedly stifled the prophetic metaphorical language by reading it within the ‘default contexts’ of ‘the marriage metaphor’ and ‘cultic prostitution’, which for so many years have been simply assumed. Readers are encouraged instead to read these diverse metaphors and similes within their distinctive literary contexts in which they have the potential to rise vividly to life, provoking the question: how are we to respond to these disquieting, powerful texts in the midst of the Hebrew Bible?.
Mary-Ann Constantine and Gerald Porter
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197262887
- eISBN:
- 9780191734441
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262887.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This book is about traditional songs. Folk song scholarship was originally obsessed with notions of completeness and narrative coherence; yet field notebooks and recordings (and, increasingly, ...
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This book is about traditional songs. Folk song scholarship was originally obsessed with notions of completeness and narrative coherence; yet field notebooks and recordings (and, increasingly, publications) overwhelmingly suggest that apparently ‘broken’ and drastically shortened versions of songs are not perceived as incomplete by those who sing them. This study turns the focus on these ‘dog-ends’ of oral tradition, and looks closely at how very short texts convey meaning in performance by working the audience's knowledge of a highly allusive idiom. What emerges is the tenacity of meaning in the connotative and metaphorical language of traditional song, and the extraordinary adaptability of songs in different cultural contexts. Such pieces have a strong metonymic force: they should not be seen as residual ‘last leaves’ of a once complete tradition, but as dynamic elements in the process of oral transmission. Not all song fragments remain in their natural environment, and this book also explores relocations and dislocations as songs are adapted to new contexts: a ballad of love and death is used to count pins in lace-making, song-snippets trail subversive meanings in the novels of Charles Dickens. Because they are variable and elusive to dating, songs have had little attention from the literary establishment: the authors of this book show both how certain critical approaches can be fruitfully applied to song texts, and how concepts from studies in oral traditions prefigure aspects of contemporary critical theory. Coverage includes English, Welsh, Breton, American, and Finnish songs.Less
This book is about traditional songs. Folk song scholarship was originally obsessed with notions of completeness and narrative coherence; yet field notebooks and recordings (and, increasingly, publications) overwhelmingly suggest that apparently ‘broken’ and drastically shortened versions of songs are not perceived as incomplete by those who sing them. This study turns the focus on these ‘dog-ends’ of oral tradition, and looks closely at how very short texts convey meaning in performance by working the audience's knowledge of a highly allusive idiom. What emerges is the tenacity of meaning in the connotative and metaphorical language of traditional song, and the extraordinary adaptability of songs in different cultural contexts. Such pieces have a strong metonymic force: they should not be seen as residual ‘last leaves’ of a once complete tradition, but as dynamic elements in the process of oral transmission. Not all song fragments remain in their natural environment, and this book also explores relocations and dislocations as songs are adapted to new contexts: a ballad of love and death is used to count pins in lace-making, song-snippets trail subversive meanings in the novels of Charles Dickens. Because they are variable and elusive to dating, songs have had little attention from the literary establishment: the authors of this book show both how certain critical approaches can be fruitfully applied to song texts, and how concepts from studies in oral traditions prefigure aspects of contemporary critical theory. Coverage includes English, Welsh, Breton, American, and Finnish songs.
Farah Karim-Cooper
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748619931
- eISBN:
- 9780748652204
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748619931.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
Most critics who have examined the theological and misogynistic opposition to cosmetics argue that the dramatic representation of cosmetics is grounded in a fundamental devaluation of beautification. ...
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Most critics who have examined the theological and misogynistic opposition to cosmetics argue that the dramatic representation of cosmetics is grounded in a fundamental devaluation of beautification. The painted iconography of Queen Elizabeth I was simultaneously an emblem of political potency and a marker of an unmistakable femininity. Cosmetic ingredients and the metaphorical language offered by cosmetic discourses provided dramatists with crucial and vividly dramatic materials for their art. Dramatists saw fit to transport the notion of beautification out of the domestic space into the theatrical space, recognising the performative value of cosmetic materiality and the poetic richness of cosmetic metaphors.Less
Most critics who have examined the theological and misogynistic opposition to cosmetics argue that the dramatic representation of cosmetics is grounded in a fundamental devaluation of beautification. The painted iconography of Queen Elizabeth I was simultaneously an emblem of political potency and a marker of an unmistakable femininity. Cosmetic ingredients and the metaphorical language offered by cosmetic discourses provided dramatists with crucial and vividly dramatic materials for their art. Dramatists saw fit to transport the notion of beautification out of the domestic space into the theatrical space, recognising the performative value of cosmetic materiality and the poetic richness of cosmetic metaphors.
