Description
A copiously researched and groundbreaking investigation of the expression in such wide use today, Flesh Becomes Word follows the scapegoat from its origins in Mesopotamian ritual across centuries of typological reflection on the meaning of Jesus' death, to its first informal uses in the pornographic and plague literature of the 1600s, and finally into the modern era, where the word takes recognisable shape in the context of the New English Quaker persecution and proto-feminist diatribe at the close of the seventeenth century. The historical circumstances of its lexical formation prove rich in implications for current theories of the scapegoat and the making of the modern world alike.
About the Author
David Dawson teaches at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose. He wrote Flesh Becomes Word while a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Department of French and Italian.
Book Information
ISBN 9781611860634
Author David Dawson
Format Paperback
Page Count 220
Imprint Michigan State University Press
Publisher Michigan State University Press
Weight(grams) 295g