brilliantly and shockingly iconoclastic
perverse but also creative and revelatory
I revise that slightly in the section on the Song of Songs – it was perversely and stupidly excessive and self-revealingly self-indulgent, jaded, degrading, absurd, cynical, mercenary, machine-like, plastic, empty, soul-less, chauvanistic ... and reluctantly (for me) significantly valuable in spite of the author's apparent phallic insecurities and associated sexual ambivalence.
the inter-threading and weaving of post-modern theory, marxist theory, structuralist theory through 'odd-couples' (unique pairings between popular culture and hebrew bible icon) – with an aesthetically inspired semi-mythic-narrative (shades of 'Underbelly' and 'Children of Men') that ties together the delectable streams of the research like a bouquet garni.
I am enriched and glad for
- the candour and the arrogance of the text (without which it would never have been captured)
- that routledge had the foresight to publish it
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