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Marcia Pally - From This Broken Hill I Sing to You, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

From This Broken Hill I Sing to You

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

Av Marcia Pally

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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.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-10-07
  • Mått: 138 x 214 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 295 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 200
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9780567694768
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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.

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Marcia Pally offers here an immensely rich theological interpretation of the work of legendary Canadian poet-musician Leonard Cohen. The key theological theme I see is Cohen's claim that we human beings were made for covenant with God and one another and yet the way we were made – or the way we have turned out – makes it immensely difficult for us to keep the very covenants that we need. So the human condition is tragic, and the tragedy may ultimately be traceable to the very God who alone is our source and our destiny. This book makes me want to marinate in the music and poetry, though not the lifestyle, of Leonard Cohen. It also deepens my immense appreciation for the impressive intellectual range of Marcia Pally. This is a tour de force.

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