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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
Human body in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History. --- Research.
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'Imagining Sex' examines a variety of material from 17th century England to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it usually subject to suppression. The book explores contemporary thinking on these issues and wider cultural concerns.
Pornography --- Erotic literature, English --- English literature --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Literature, Immoral --- Porn --- Porno --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Erotica --- History --- History and criticism. --- Sex industry --- Body, Human, in literature.
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The goal of this book is to elaborate the theoretical framework with regard to reading postmodern fiction from the perspective of the bodies of their narrators as textual occurrences. It centers on Lacanian psychoanalysis and the intersection between its
Fiction --- Violence in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism.
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This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth century Japanese writers, the book analyses the meaning of the body in postwar Japanese discourse, the gender constructions of the imagery of the body and the implications for our understanding of individual and national identity. This book will be of interest to all students of modern Japanese literature.
Human body in literature. --- Japanese fiction --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism.
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This book contends that the haptic sense - combining touch, kinaesthesis and proprioception - was first fully conceptualised and explored in the modernist period, in response to radical new bodily experiences brought about by scientific, technological and psychological change. How does the body's sense of its own movement shift when confronted with modernist film? How might travel by motorcar disorientate one sufficiently to bring about an existential crisis? If the body is made of divisible atoms, what work can it do to slow the fleeting moment of modernist life? The answers to all these questions and many more can be found in the work of four major writers of the modernist canon - James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence and Dorothy Richardson. They suggest that haptic experience is at the heart of existence in the early twentieth century, and each displays a fascination with the elusive sense of touch. Yet these writers go further, undertaking formal experiments which enable their own writing to provoke a haptic response in their readers.
Modernism (Literature) --- Touch in literature. --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature
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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.
Body, Human, in motion pictures. --- Experimental films --- Body, Human, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Body, Human, in motion pictures --- Human body in literature. --- Human body in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Body [Human ] in motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Body [Human ] in literature --- Human body in literature
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Argues that many major texts of 20th-century literature revolve around the concept of the mother figure. Examining novels of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism and drawing upon the history of eugenics and anthropology, this study shows how mother figures represent symbols of race and ethnicity.
American fiction --- English fiction --- African Americans in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Mothers in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- African Americans --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- African Americans in literature --- Body [Human ] in literature --- Race in literature --- Human body in literature --- Body, Human, in literature.
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L’interprétation n’aurait-elle pas besoin des émotions ? Ce livre répond à cette question par une série d’études sur l’articulation entre l’expérience esthétique et l’activité herméneutique dans des œuvres des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Si le corps et l’interprétation ont longtemps été placés dans un rapport d’exclusion, une partie de la pensée philosophique et critique a récemment proposé de repenser une continuité entre la réception sensible et l’élaboration du sens. La période qui s’étend de la Renaissance aux Lumières nous aide à le faire, parce qu’avant l’autonomisation de la sphère esthétique, une œuvre ou une pratique esthétique ne sont jamais pensées hors de leurs effets sur leurs destinataires. Les études réunies dans ce volume invitent à repenser en profondeur l’expérience esthétique, qui se reformule plus exactement en relation esthétique : l’objet à interpréter n’est pas tant l’œuvre que la réaction, l’affection, du corps face à l’œuvre, ou la relation que le lecteur/spectateur établit avec l’œuvre. C’est en fonction de cette interprétation seconde que l’on pourra décider du sens – ou de l’un des sens possibles – de l’œuvre. On voit ainsi apparaître des manières différentes d’engager l’expérience sensible dans l’interprétation, ce qui nous importe à la fois comme pédagogues, dans nos pratiques de transmissions, comme chercheurs, pour comprendre comment opère l’élaboration du sens, mais aussi comme spectateurs, dans l’appréhension des œuvres d’art qui nous entourent.
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This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on early modern poetry, particularly on representations of the self, the body and erotic life. Paying close attention to the trope of the female voice in the Metamorphoses, as well as early modern attempts at transgendered ventriloquism that are indebted to Ovid's work, she argues that Ovid's rhetoric of the body profoundly challenges Renaissance representations of authorship as well as conceptions about the difference between male and female experience. This vividly original book makes a vital contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.
Classical literature --- English literature --- European literature --- Human body in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature
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This book offers fresh insights into the plethora of medieval bodies and the multiple perspectives that can be assumed in their discussion. The ten essays by internationally renowned scholars and young academics encompass diverse approaches to the body such as the function of gestures, the gendered gaze, the body's spatial and geographical positioning, the (dis)integrity of the body or the connection between linguistic uses of 'body' and physical bodies. While most of the contributions of thi...
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