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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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Das französischsprachige Theater der Spanischen Niederlande des 16. Jahrhunderts verhandelt an einem der Kreuzungspunkte der europäischen Kultur zahlreiche Umbrüche der Frühen Neuzeit. Ausgerichtet auf eine komplexe Identitätsdebatte aktualisiert das Theater ein Spiel, in dessen Mittelpunkt sinnenfreudige Körper stehen.
French language --- Theatrical science --- History of the Low Countries --- anno 1500-1599 --- French drama --- Human body in literature --- Nationalism and literature --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- French literature --- History and criticism --- History --- French drama - Netherlands - 16th century - History and criticism --- Nationalism and literature - Netherlands - History - 16th century
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Erotic literature, English --- English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- Human body in literature --- Pornography --- Literature, Immoral --- Porn --- Porno --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Erotica --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Human body in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sex industry
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Throughout the history of all civilizations at least until very recently, the most fundamental values at the basis of societal organization and culture were determined and sanctified almost exclusively by men - including the values traditionally associated with women, such as corporeal beauty, purity, motherhood, or empathy. However, from the ancient times already, and increasingly toward the end of the second millennium, women have always found ways to overcome the limits set to them by the ...
Feminism --- Feminism and literature --- Human body in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Literature --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Women authors --- Emancipation --- Literature and feminism
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Liberal individualism, a foundational concept of American politics, assumes an essentially homogeneous population of independent citizens. When confronted with physical disability and the contradiction of seemingly unruly bodies, however, the public searches for a story that can make sense of the difference. The narrative that ensues makes "abnormality" an important part of the dialogue about what a genuine citizen is, though its role is concealed as an exception to the rule of individuality rather than a defining difference. Reading Embodied Citizenship brings disability to the forefront, illuminating its role in constituting what counts as U.S. citizenship. Drawing from major figures in American literature, including Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and David Foster Wallace, as well as introducing texts from the emerging canon of disability studies, Emily Russell demonstrates the place of disability at the core of American ideals. The narratives prompted by the encounter between physical difference and the body politic require a new understanding of embodiment as a necessary conjunction of physical, textual, and social bodies. Russell examines literature to explore and unsettle long-held assumptions about American citizenship.
Human body --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- American fiction --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Political aspects --- History and criticism.
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Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their biological functions. Investigations of male potency and the 'ability to perform' have long been mainstays of social, political, and artistic discourse and have often provoked spirited and partisan declarations on what it means to be a man. This interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have developed between the historical privilege often ascribed to the male and the vulnerabilities to which his body is prone. Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea's introduction illustrates how with the dawn of modern medicine during the Renaissance there emerged a complex set of languages for describing the male body not only as a symbol of strength, but as flesh and bone prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, the essays consider the critical ways in which medicine's interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender, and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of 'pathologies' including deformity, venereal disease, injury, nervousness, and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a broad range of sources including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature, and the Modern novel.
English literature --- American literature --- Men in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- Medicine in literature. --- Literature and medicine --- Masculinity in literature. --- History. --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine --- Medical care in literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- monstrosity --- medical humanities --- masculinity --- gender studies --- potency --- queer theory --- pathology
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American fiction --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Body [Human ] in literature --- People with disabilities in literature --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Twain, Mark --- Dunn, Katherine --- Ozeki, Ruth --- Heinemann, Larry Curtiss --- Wallace, David Foster --- Kovic, Ron --- Human body --- Political aspects --- United States --- Human body in literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- 820 "19" --- 82.04 --- 820 <73> --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- 820 <73> Amerikaanse literatuur --- Amerikaanse literatuur --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's
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Lointaines héritières des amantes chantées par les élégiaques, les femmes que font revivre les poèmes latins tardifs en ont gardé la beauté et l'esprit. Tantôt volages et tantôt chastes, tantôt mères et tantôt vierges pures, elles incarnent une facette méconnue de l'Antiquité, celle d'une époque où l'héritage littéraire classique s'accorde encore harmonieusement avec les exigences de la foi nouvelle. Qu'ils soient païens ou chrétiens, les poètes se rejoignent plus souvent qu'on ne le pense dans une célébration commune du corps féminin, grâce à toutes les ressources d'une poétique de la profusion.
Women in literature. --- Latin poetry --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Poésie latine --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Women in literature --- Femme --- --Littérature --- --Poésie latine --- --History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Poésie latine --- Human body in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Latin poetry - History and criticism --- Littérature --- Corps humain --- Femmes --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature
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Wie reagieren bürgerliche Autoren im 19. Jahrhundert auf die Herausforderungen der Physiologie und des Darwinismus? Welches ästhetische Körperbegehren drückt sich in literarischen Darstellungen von Fotografie und Spiritismus aus? Dieser Band untersucht die bisher vernachlässigte Darstellung des Körpers in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Realismus im Zusammenhang mit Prozessen der Verwissenschaftlichung und Technisierung. Die Beiträge verstehen sich als Beitrag zu einer literarischen Anthropologie: Sie porträtieren Inszenierungsfelder des Leiblichen in einer Zeit tiefgreifender Verunsicherung und zeigen die Literatur auf dem Weg in die Moderne.
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The Female Body in Medicine and Literature features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. Gender studies and feminist approaches to literature have become busy and enlightening fields of enquiry in recent times, yet there remains no single work that fully analyses the impact of women's surgery on literary production or, conversely, ways in which literary trends have shaped the course of gynaecology and other branches of women's medicine. This book will demonstrate how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender. Medical textbooks and pamphlets have consistently cited fictional plots and characterisations as a way of communicating complex or 'sensitive' ideas. Essays explore historical accounts of clinical procedures, the relationship between gynaecology and psychology, and cultural conceptions of motherhood, fertility, and the female organisation through a broad range of texts including Henry More's Pre-Existency of the Soul (1659), Charlotte Brontë's Villette (1855), and Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues (1998). The Female Body in Medicine and Literature raises important theoretical questions on the relationship between popular culture, literature, and the growth of women's medicine and will be required reading for scholars in gender studies, literary studies and the history of medicine. This collection explores the complex intersections between literature and the medical treatment of women between 1600 and 2000. Employing a range of methodologies, it furthers our understanding of the development of women's medicine and comments on its wider cultural ramifications. Although there has been an increase in critical studies of women's medicine in recent years, this collection is a key contributor to that field because it draws together essays on a wide range of new topics from varying disciplines. It features, for instance, studies of motherhood, fertility, clinical procedure, and the relationship between gynaecology and psychology. Besides offering essays on subjects that have received a lack of critical attention, the essays presented here are truly interdisciplinary; they explore the complex links between gynaecology, art, language, and philosophy, and underscore how popular art forms have served an important function in the formation of 'women's science' prior to the twenty-first century. This book also demonstrates how a number of high-profile controversies were taken up and reworked by novelists, philosophers, and historians. Focusing on the vexed and convoluted story of women's medicine, this volume offers new ways of thinking about gender, science, and the Western imagination.
English literature --- Women in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Medicine in literature. --- Literature and medicine --- Gynecology --- Obstetrics --- Women's health services --- Medical care in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Maternal-fetal medicine --- Medicine --- Gynaecology --- Generative organs, Female --- Medicine and literature --- Health services for women --- Women --- Medical care --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Study and teaching --- Diseases --- Services for --- American literature --- Human Body. --- Medicine in Literature. --- Women. --- History
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