Marcia Pally

From This Broken Hill I Sing to You (eBook, PDF)

God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Leonard Cohen's troubled relationship with God is here mapped onto his troubled relationships with sex and politics. Analysing Covenantal theology and its place in Cohen's work, this book is the first to trace a consistent theology across sixty years of Cohen's writing, drawing on his Jewish heritage and its expression in his lyrics and poems.

Cohen's commitment to covenant, and his anger at this God who made us so prone to failing it, undergird the faith, frustration, and sardonic taunting of Cohen's work. Both his faith and ire are traced through:
· Cohen's unorthodox use of Jewish and Christian imagery
· His writings about women, politics, and the Holocaust
· His final theology, You Want It Darker, released three weeks before his death.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567694799
• Artikelnr.: 62284297

Autorenporträt

Marcia Pally is Professor in Multilingual Multicultural Studies at New York University, USA and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the Theology Faculty at Humboldt University-Berlin (Germany), where she is now a regular Guest Professor.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and Biographical Sketch Chapter One: Theodicy: Arguments With
God about Evil, Suffering, and God Himself Chapter Two: Covenantal Theology
and its Place in Cohen's Work Chapter Three: From Covenantal Theology to
Theodicy: Failing Covenant with God and Persons Chapter Four: Failing
Covenant with God and Persons: Doubled Imagery in Cohen's Work Chapter
Five: Those who did not fail covenant: Moses and Jesus-Cohen's Jewish and
Christian Imagery Chapter Six: The Double Bind That Is Not a Bond: Cohen
and Women Chapter Seven: Betrayal of God, Betrayal of Persons, Political
Betrayals-Cohen's Trinity Concluding Remarks: You Want It Darker and
Thanks for the Dance-Cohen's Last Creed Bibliography Index