Gift and the Song of Songs @ The Bible and Critical Theory Seminar, 2012 (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper explores Helene Cixous’ response to the theory of ‘Gift’ and then presents a ‘live’-reading of the Song of Songs in terms of Gift. This is an approach to the Song of Songs which could be seen as a kind of birthing that allows multiple escapes the Realm of the Proper. The goal that will both succeed and fail is to enter Cixous’ feminine realm of ‘pure’ Gift with the text through form and language of the paper. Rather than being confined to cycles of exchange and return, of absolutes, of economies, the Song of Songs will be shown to continually overflow boundaries and break laws. The new and unique are birthed all the time inside the text, rupturing language into unlimited possibility and endless creativity. Love escapes. Bringing together Cixous’ own live-texts and the author’s creative response to the Shulamith, the scene is set for a vibrant reading.

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