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Alice Hall - Contemporary Literature and the Body, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Contemporary Literature and the Body

A Critical Introduction

Av Alice Hall

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Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present.Examining these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different genres, it argues that scholarship on literature and the body is of fundamental importance to discussions about gender, race, sexuality, class, age, narrative form, and processes of reading and writing.This volume understands ‘literature’ in a broad sense: as fundamentally connected to changes in technology, culture and the environment. Offering a lively and accessible synthesis, chapters explore how literary writing of present and recent decades is concerned with the challenges of conveying physical experiences, experimenting with sensory perception, and thinking through the relationship between embodiment, identity and knowledge.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-10-19
  • Mått: 138 x 218 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 440 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 264
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350180161
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Alice Hall is a Lecturer in Contemporary and Global Literature at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Disability and Modern Fiction and Literature and Disability, and is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability. She co-founded the MA in Medical Humanities at York and convenes 'The Body in Modern American Literature and Culture' module.

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As with all of Hall’s writing, there is a delightful activism running throughout this important book. She raises the bar on critical discussion, bringing a new alertness to the relevance of the body in literature. Tellingly, she does not overlook how literary texts themselves are kinds of bodies not to be left out in the rush to theory and critical debate

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