Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives As Femme Fatale: The Lost Seduction

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Femme Fatale: Cultural Icon -- The Dusk Hours of the Nineteenth Century: Femmes Fatales in the Fin de Siècle -- The (Sexualized) Female of th...

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Main Author: Blyth, Caroline 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2017
In: Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies (652)
Year: 2017
Reviews:Minding and Mending the Gap (2020) (Murphy, Kelly J., 1979 -)
[Rezension von: Blyth, Caroline, Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale : The Lost Seduction] (2019) (Finitsis, Antonios)
[Rezension von: Blyth, Caroline, Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale : The Lost Seduction] (2018) (Trimm, Charlie)
[Rezension von: Blyth, Caroline, Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale : The Lost Seduction] (2022) (Vander Stichele, Caroline, 1959 -)
[Rezension von: Blyth, Caroline, Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale : The Lost Seduction] (2019) (Grafius, Brandon R.)
[Rezension von: Russaw, Kimberly D., Daughters in the Hebrew Bible; Powell, Stephanie Day, Narrative desire and the Book of Ruth; Blyth, Caroline, 1967-, Reimagining Delilah's afterlives as femme fatale] (2020) (Kahn-Harris, Deborah)
Series/Journal:Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies Old Testament studies 652
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Delilah / Bible. Judge 16 / Exegesis / Femmes fatale / Feminist theology
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Delilah
B Bible Judges, XVI Feminist criticism
B Bible
B Electronic books
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Erscheint auch als: Blyth, Caroline: Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives As Femme Fatale : The Lost Seduction. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2017. - 9780567673121
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Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Femme Fatale: Cultural Icon -- The Dusk Hours of the Nineteenth Century: Femmes Fatales in the Fin de Siècle -- The (Sexualized) Female of the Species Is More Deadly than the Male -- Gender bending Femmes -- The Earthly Chimera -- Erotic Exotics -- Origins of the Fin de Siècle Femme Fatale -- Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead -- A Dame to Die for: The Femme Fatale in Hard-boiled Fiction and Film Noir -- Exquisite Violence -- Queer Noir Femmes -- A Hard-boiled Otherness -- Damsels in Disguise and Duplicitous Dames -- The Dame's Demise -- Sites of Contention: The Origins of Hard-boiled and Noir Femmes Fatales -- Saying Au Revoir - But Not for Too Long -- Sexed Up and Gender Fluid: The Fatal Woman in the Twentieth Century Fin de Siècle and Beyond -- 'Flesh Seduces. Passion Kills' -- Lost in the Post-feminist: Gender Subversion and the Neo-noir Femmes Fatales -- Getting Away with Murder -- Fin de Siècle Anxieties Redux: Origins of the Neo-noir Femme Fatale -- Summing Up the Femme Fatale -- Chapter 2 Mind The Gap Part 1: Delilah's Interpretive Afterlives -- Introduction -- What's in a Name? -- Gendering Sex -- Did They or Didn't They? -- Gender Trouble? -- Whoring Around -- 'I Am Philistine, and Beautiful': Race, Hybridity and Otherness -- Show Me the Money: Unravelling Delilah's Motivations -- (Un)happy Endings: Delilah's Fate -- Lingering Impressions -- Chapter 3 Mind The Gap Part 2: Delilah's Cultural Afterlives -- Fatal Words: Delilah as Femme Fatale in Literature -- Captured on Canvas: Delilah in Art -- Peter Paul Rubens, Samson and Delilah (c. 1609-10) -- A Coterie of Delilahs from Gustave Moreau -- Alexandre Cabanel, Samson and Delilah (1878).
Solomon Joseph Solomon, Samson and Delilah, 1887 -- José Echenagusía Errazquin, Samson and Delilah, 1887 -- De-glamorizing Delilah -- Delilah in Music -- Camille Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila -- Fatal Femme, Floozie and Feckless Lover: Delilah in Contemporary Song -- Delilah Projected -- Samson and Delilah (1949): 'Bring in a Woman and You Bring in Trouble' -- Post-feminist and Patriarchal: Nic Roeg's Samson and Delilah (1996) -- The Dialectics of Discourses and Afterlives -- Chapter 4 Delilah Redux -- When Raymond Met Delilah: The Femme Fatale in Farewell My Lovely -- A Scandal in Sorek -- TheWhipHand - Irene Adler as Femme Fatale -- 'Brainy Is the New Sexy' - Sherlock as a Fatal Femme -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of authors -- Index of Biblical Texts
ISBN:0567673138