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Textual bodies : changing boundaries of literary representation
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ISBN: 0585077711 9780585077710 0791431614 0791431622 1438410360 Year: 1997 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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The body unbound : philosophical perspectives on politics, embodiment and religion
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ISBN: 128258846X 9786612588464 1443820563 9781443820561 9781443819848 1443819840 Year: 2010 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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A philosophical inquiry into politics, embodiment and religion takes us straight to some of contemporary culture's most notorious issues: suicide bombing, the veiled and the exposed body, and present-day biopolitics. Interpretations of the body have alway

Reading Bibles, writing bodies
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ISBN: 0203290232 9780203290231 020343336X 9780203433362 0415126649 0415126657 9781134799749 9781134799787 9781134799794 9780415126649 9780415126656 1134799780 Year: 1997 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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The Bible is often said to be one of the foundation texts of Western culture. The present volume shows that it goes far beyond being a religious text. The essays explore how religious, political and cultural identities, including ethnicity and gender, are embodied in biblical discourse. Following the authors, we read the Bible with new eyes: as a critic of gender, ideology, politics and culture. We ask ourselves new questions: about God's body, about women's role, about racial prejudices and about the politics of the written word.Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies crosses boundaries. It questions our most fundamental assumptions about the Bible. It shows how biblical studies can benefit from the mainstream of Western intellectual discourse, throwing up entirely new questions and offering surprising answers. Accessible, engaging and moving easily between theory and the reading of specific texts, this volume is an exciting contribution to contemporary biblical and cultural studies.

Body of vision
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ISBN: 9786610925186 1280925183 9780889203288 0889208182 0585164177 9780585164175 0889202761 0889203288 Year: 1998 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Elder examines how artists such as Brakhage, Artaud, Schneemann, Cohen and others have tried to recognize and to convey primordial forms of experiences. He argues that the attempt to convey these primordial modes of awareness demands a different conception of artistic meaning from any of those that currently dominate contemporary critical discussion. By reworking theories and speech in highly original ways, Elder formulates this new conception. His remarks on the gaps in contemporary critical practices will likely become the focus of much debate.

Joyce, "Penelope" and the body
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ISBN: 9042019190 9401202559 1423791541 9781423791546 9789401202558 9789042019195 Year: 2006 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,

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Joyce, “Penelope” and the Body is a collection of twelve essays about “Penelope”, the famous final episode of Joyce’s Ulysses in relation to contemporary literary, cultural, philosophical and psychoanalytical theories of the body. As such it offers an unusually close look at that episode itself and it also becomes the very first book on Joyce that takes the idea of the body as its announced central theme. The contributors represented here come from England, Ireland, Europe and North America and they include some of the best established critics of Joyce alongside newcomers to academic publication. The essays include an encouraging diversity of approaches but they have in common a marked intellectual ambition, a surprisingly fresh and innovative approach and above all a devoted fascination for Joyce’s text. Taken together they offer much new potential for the reading of Joyce and Modernism and a range of possibilities for understanding the body and its representation through language and in culture that have resonances across the cultural sphere.

Thinking the limits of the body
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ISBN: 0791487474 1417520531 9781417520534 0791455998 9780791455999 0791456005 9780791456002 9780791487471 9780791487471 Year: 2003 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.

My body, the Buddhist
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ISBN: 081957452X 9780819574527 9780819563286 0819563285 0819564362 0819563285 9780819564368 Year: 2000 Publisher: Hanover, N.H. University Press of New England :Wesleyan University Press

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A premiere choreographer's compelling argument for the agency of the body in creative processes.


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The kingdom of infinite space : a portrait of your head
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ISBN: 1282437380 9786612437380 0300151829 9780300151824 0300142226 9780300142228 9780300142228 9781282437388 6612437383 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life
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ISBN: 3110407388 3110407477 9783110407389 9783110407396 3110407396 3110407310 9783110407310 3110407396 9783110407471 3110407310 9783110407310 Year: 2015 Publisher: München Wien

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The body is at the same time a place where we express duration and/or discontinuity in history, a witness of radical social changes, and a factor of stabilization, but also of the transformation of human life - and therefore an eminent challenge for every human being. This book will contribute in a decisively interdisciplinary and cross-cultural way to a better understanding of the place, role, and connection of the body within social, political, and cultural shifts.


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Probing the skin : cultural representations of our contact zone
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ISBN: 9781443875189 144387518X 1322889767 9781322889764 1443870684 9781443870689 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores representations of skin in literature, art, art history, visual media, and medicine and its history. The essays collected here probe the symbolic potential of skin as a shifting sign in various historical and cultural contexts, and also examine the material and organic properties of the body's largest organ. They deal with skin as a sensual organ, as an interface or contact zone, as the visual marker of identity, and as a lieu de memoire in different periods and media. In its material characteristics, skin is regarded as a medium, a

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