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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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The female body, with its history as an object of social control, expectation, and manipulation, is central to understanding the gendered construction of shame. Through the study of 20th-century literary texts, The Female Face of Shame explores the nexus of femininity, female sexuality, the female body, and shame. It demonstrates how shame structures relationships and shapes women's identities. Examining works by women authors from around the world, these essays provide an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective on the representations, theories, and powerful articulations of women's
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Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and power. In tracing representations of ideal black masculinities and femininities, Henry Anthony shows how black men's struggles for gendered agency are inextricably bound up with their complicated relation to white men and normative masculinity. The historical context in which Henry Anthony couc
American literature --- Femininity in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature
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An interdisciplinary exploration of indigenous bodies.
American literature --- Indian literature --- Human body in literature. --- Human body in art. --- Human body --- Indian artists --- Indian philosophy --- Indian art --- Indian literature (American) --- Indian literature (American Indian) --- Literature --- Indians of North America --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Ethnic art --- Symbolic aspects of the human body --- Symbolism --- Artists, Indian --- Artists --- Human body in art --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Indian authors. --- History and criticism. --- Symbolic aspects. --- Indian authors --- Philosophy --- Human figure in art.
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Book history --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Humanity --- Nature --- Human body (Philosophy) --- Human body in literature --- Animals (Philosophy) --- Animals in literature --- Landscapes --- Human beings --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- Early works to 1800 --- Religious aspects --- History --- Symbolic aspects --- Animal nature --- Humanity (Virtue) --- Congresses --- Body [Human ] (Philosophy) --- Body [Human ] in literature --- Philosophy [Medieval ] --- Philosophy [Renaissance ] --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Humanity - Early works to 1800 - Congresses --- Nature - Religious aspects - Congresses --- Human body (Philosophy) - History - Congresses --- Human body in literature - Congresses --- Animals (Philosophy) - History - Congresses --- Animals in literature - Congresses --- Landscapes - Symbolic aspects - History - Congresses --- Human beings - Animal nature - Congresses --- Philosophy, Medieval - Congresses --- Philosophy, Renaissance - Congresses
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"Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body's productive capacity - whether expressed through the flesh's materiality, or through its role in performing meaning. The collection is divided into four clusters. 'Foundations' traces the use of physical remnants of the body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the form of the body as foundational in communal structures; 'Performing the Body' focuses on the ways in which the individual body functions as the medium through which the social body is maintained; 'Bodily Rhetoric' explores the poetic linkage of body and meaning; and 'Material Bodies' engages with the processes of corporeal being, ranging from the energetic flow of humoural liquids to the decay of the flesh. Together, the essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study."--Jacket.
Human body --- Identity (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Community life --- Literature, Medieval --- Human body in literature. --- Human figure in art. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Social aspects --- History --- Symbolic aspects --- History and criticism. --- Body, Human --- Human body in art --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Personal identity --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Conformity --- Likes and dislikes --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Human body in literature --- Human figure in art --- History and criticism --- Europa. --- Europa --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Abendland --- Okzident --- Europäer
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