Kristeva: The Individual, the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text.
The aim of this study is to develop from Kristeva's account of time and semiotics the conditions of possibility for a new approach to interpreting the Bible. This will be set against the background of feminist biblical criticism, beginning from Esther Fuchs's assessment of deception. She bases her c...
| Publicado en: | Text Matters Vol. 4; no. 4; pp. 132 - 145 |
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego
Nov2014
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