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Textual Bodies

Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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Illustrates changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on the place and treatment of the human body in the Western textual tradition. The work serves the double purpose of providing new, original, and provocative readings of familiar texts by applying the latest innovations in theory to specific works. Topics range from Sappho's fragments through cross-dressing in medieval romance to mutilation in Kathy Acker's Great Expectations. Together the essays illustrate changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-01-09
Mått149 x 226 x 16 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, The Body in Culture, History, and Religion
Antal sidor292
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791431627

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary RepresentationLori Hope Lefkovitz1. Sappho's Body in PiecesPage duBois2. Aristotle, Gynecology, and the Body Sick with DesireRobert Con Davis3. Cross-Dressing in Medieval RomanceRoberta Davidson4. Devotion and Defilement: The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Corporeal Hagiographics of Chaucer's Prioress's TaleRichard Rambuss5. The Somaticized Text: Corporeal Semiotic in a Late Medieval Female HagiographySheila Delany6. Shape-Shifting: Fashion, Gender, and Metamorphosis in Eighteenth-Century EnglandDeborah Laycock7. Mind Over Matter: Sexuality and Where the "body happens to be" in the Alice BooksDonald Rackin8. Oeuvres Intertwined:Walter Pater and Antoine WatteauGita Rajan9. Florence Nightingale and the Negation of the BodyMiriam Bailin10. Slapping Women: Ibsen's Nora, Strindberg's Julie, and Freud's DoraFreddie Rokem11. The "Mutilating Body" and the Decomposing Text: Recovery in Kathy Acker's Great ExpectationsMartina SciolinoContributorsIndex

"This is an intriguing topic, certainly in both theoretical and socio-political fields, where we are redefining the limits and possibilities of the body (reproductive rights and technologies, health and physical fitness claims, AIDS and human sexuality) on a daily basis. I found I was most interested in the new historical approaches to body politics." — Denise Witzig, St. Mary's College"The most interesting features of this collection are its range across historical periods, the breadth of its chronological span, and the quality of the individual essays." — Joan Dagle, Rhode Island College