On Reading Love in Frankenstein and The Song of Songs

This essay draws together the Song of Songs and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein in order to engage in a comparative reading, one text alongside the other. The theoretical frame that holds this rereading is Cixous’s school of poetic thinking-writing: écriture féminine. The contribution this essay makes to...

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Subtitles:Essays
Main Author: Cameron, Yael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2021
In: The Bible and critical theory
Year: 2021, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 21-32
Further subjects:B Frankenstein
B Mary Shelley
B Cixous
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Summary:This essay draws together the Song of Songs and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein in order to engage in a comparative reading, one text alongside the other. The theoretical frame that holds this rereading is Cixous’s school of poetic thinking-writing: écriture féminine. The contribution this essay makes to studies of the Song of Songs is in its problematising of divine love and critical emphasis on its mortality within a discursive and eclectic world of texts, primarily Frankenstein, but also, Paradise Lost, Genesis, The Book of Promethea, and Philosophy of the Boudoir.
ISSN:1832-3391
Contains:Enthalten in: The Bible and critical theory