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Blood is life, its complex composition is finely attuned to our vital needs and functions. Blood can also signify death, while 'bloody' is a curse. Arising from the 2021 Darwin College Lectures, this volume invites leading thinkers on the subject to explore the many meanings of blood across a diverse range of disciplines. Through the eyes of artist Marc Quinn, the paradoxical nature of blood plays with the notion of self. Through those of geneticist Walter Bodmer, it becomes a scientific reality: bloodlines and diaspora capture our notions of community. The transfer of blood between bodies, as Rose George relates, can save lives, or as we learn from Claire Roddie can cure cancer. Tim Pedley and Stuart Egginton explore the extraordinary complexity of blood as a critical biological fluid. Sarah Read examines the intimate connection between blood and womanhood, as Carol Senf does in her consideration of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
Blood. --- Blood --- Blood in art. --- Blood in literature. --- Social aspects.
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Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals.
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In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the context of anthropological and religious studies, McCracken offers a provocative examination of the ways gendered cultural values were mapped onto blood in the Middle Ages.As McCracken demonstrates, blood is gendered when that of men is prized in stories about battle and that of women is excluded from the public arena in which social and political hierarchies are contested and defined through chivalric contest. In her examination of the conceptualization of familial relationships, she uncovers the privileges that are grounded in gendered definitions of blood relationships. She shows that in narratives about sacrifice a father's relationship to his son is described as a shared blood, whereas texts about women accused of giving birth to monstrous children define the mother's contribution to conception in terms of corrupted, often menstrual blood. Turning to fictional representations of bloody martyrdom and of eucharistic ritual, McCracken juxtaposes the blood of the wounded guardian of the grail with that of Christ and suggests that the blood from the grail king's wound is characterized in opposition to that of women and Jewish men.Drawing on a range of French and other literary texts, McCracken shows how the dominant ideas about blood in medieval culture point to ways of seeing modern values associated with blood in a new light, and how modern representations in turn suggest new perspectives on medieval perceptions.
Blood in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Sex role in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Blood in literature --- Sex role in literature --- History and criticism --- Jewish Studies. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- LITTERATURE MEDIEVALE --- SANG DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ROLE SELON LE SEXE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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Blood in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- European literature --- Blood --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Symbolic aspects --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Social aspects --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Thematologie --- Vergelijkende letterkunde --- Europa --- Comparative literature --- Europe
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National characteristics, Irish, in literature. --- Horror tales, English --- Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) --- Vampires in literature. --- Blood in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Stoker, Bram, --- Knowledge --- Ireland. --- Ireland --- In literature. --- Dracula, Count (Fictitious character). --- Blood in literature --- National characteristics, Irish, in literature --- Vampires in literature --- History and criticism --- Stoker, Abraham, --- סטוקר, בראם, --- 斯托克布拉姆, --- Horror tales, English - History and criticism. --- Stoker, Bram, - 1847-1912. - Dracula. --- Stoker, Bram, - 1847-1912 - Knowledge - Ireland. --- Ireland - In literature. --- Stoker, Bram, - 1847-1912
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Blood physiology. Circulatory physiology --- Iconography --- History of civilization --- History of human medicine --- Christian spirituality --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- 7.046.3 --- Iconografie: religieuze voorstellingen --- Conferences - Meetings --- 7.046.3 Iconografie: religieuze voorstellingen --- Blood --- Religious aspects --- Congresses --- Christianity --- Symbolic aspects --- Blood in literature --- Blood in art
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English literature --- Blood in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- History and criticism --- Blood --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Human body --- Religion and culture --- Social aspects --- History --- History. --- Symbolic aspects --- Bloed in de literatuur --- Body [Human ] in literature --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Lichaam [Menselijk ] in de literatuur --- Menselijk lichaam in de literatuur --- Sang dans la littérature --- Blood in literature. --- Sang dans la littérature --- Civilization, Medieval --- 930.85.42 --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Body fluids --- Fear of blood --- Social aspects&delete& --- Europe --- Germany --- Civilization. --- Sang --- Corps humain --- Aspect religieux --- Aspect symbolique --- Aspect social --- Human body in literature --- Littérature anglaise --- Corps humain dans la littérature --- Religious aspects. --- Histoire et critique --- Middle Ages, 1100-1500 --- English literature - Middle Ages, 1100-1500 - History and criticism --- Moyen Age --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499
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Pynchon, Thomas --- Faulkner, William --- Morrison, Toni --- Bloed in de literatuur --- Blood in literature --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Geweld in de literatuur --- Menstruatie in de literatuur --- Menstruation dans la littérature --- Menstruation in literature --- Regeneration in literature --- Sang dans la littérature --- Symboliek in de literatuur --- Symbolism in literature --- Symbolisme dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- Violence in literature --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- American fiction --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Characters --- Women
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