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Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociated from abstraction or made a refuge from social crisis; instead, they reflect colonial and racial anxieties of the period. Rudyard Kipling's fear that he is indistinguishable from empire subjects, J. M. Barrie's object-relations theater of infantile separation, and Virginia Woolf's dismembered anagram self are performed by the physical text and produce a new understanding of textuality. In readings that also include diverse works by Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, P. G. Wodehouse and Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, George Herriman, and Sigmund Freud, this study produces a new reading of modernism's psychological text and of literary constructions of materiality in the period.

Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- English literature --- American literature --- Human body in literature. --- Psychology in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Psychology as a theme in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature

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English drama --- Human body in literature. --- English drama (Tragedy) --- Human dissection --- City and town life in literature. --- Spectacular, The, in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Anatomy, Practical --- Practical anatomy --- Dissection --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- London (England) --- In literature.

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Narrating Life explores the relationship between literature, science and the arts and the way in which they are informed by the process of narrating life. More specifically, it asks: how do literature, science and the arts affect and are affected by the emergence of a critical culture of biopolitics and its rhetorical figurations? Its topicality for literary and cultural studies lies therefore in its exploration of the question: to what extent could narratives of life (or life-writing) be understood as a special practice through which to access the contemporary discussion about biopolitics with its strategies of immunity, mutation, and contagion. The individual contributions address these questions through focusing on new forms of life writing in traditional and new media, science writing and artistic and critical creative practice. In doing so, they also explore and redraw the boundaries between fictional and factual experimental practices. Contributors: Amelie Björck, Elisabeth Friis, Holly Henry, Stefan Herbrechter, Tom Idema, Moritz Ingwersen, Cristina Iuli, Tanja Nusser, Angela Rawlings, Manuela Rossini, Dorion Sagan, Laura Shackelford, Amalie Smith, Marianne Sommer, Steve Tomasula, David Wagner , Jeff Wallace, Dominik Zechner.

Literature and science. --- Life in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Science in literature. --- Scientific literature --- Science literature --- Science --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History and criticism.

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"Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to contemporary social media, the contemporary term "selfie" was self-generated. The Body, Subject & Subjected illuminates some "selfies." This collection of critical essays about the fixation on the human self addresses a multi-faceted geographic set of cultures - the Iberian Peninsula to pre-Columbian America and Hispanic America - analyzing such representations from medical, literal and metaphorical perspectives over centuries. Chapter contributions address the representation of the body itself as subject, in both visual and textual manners, and illuminate attempts at control of the environment, of perception, of behavior and of actions, by artists and authors. Other chapters address the body as subjected to circumstance, representing the body as affected by factors such as illness, injury, treatment and death. These myriad effects on the body are interpreted through the brushes of painters and the pens of authors for social and/or personal control purposes. The essays reveal critics' insights when "selfies" are examined through a focused "lens" over a breadth of cultures"--

Human figure in art. --- Human body in literature. --- Art, Spanish. --- Art, Latin American. --- Spanish literature --- Latin American literature --- History and criticism. --- Art, Spanish American --- Latin American art --- Art, Modern --- Spanish art --- Dau al set (Group of artists) --- Grupo Pórtico (Group of artists) --- Moviment Artístic del Mediterrani (Group of artists) --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Human body in art --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting

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Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England. Focusing on the prolific figures of the barber, surgeon and barber-surgeon, the author explores what it meant to the early modern population for a group of practitioners to be associated with both the trade guilds and an emerging professional medical world. The book uncovers the differences and cross-pollinations between barbers and surgeons' practices which play out across the literature: we learn not only about their cultural, civic, medical and occupational histories but also about how we should interpret patterns in language, name choice, performance, materiality, acoustics and semiology in the period. The investigations prompt new readings of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Beaumont, among others. And with chapters delving into early modern representations of medical instruments, hairiness, bloodletting procedures, waxy or infected ears, wart removals and skeletons, readers will find much of the contribution of this book is in its detail, which brings its subject to life.

English literature --- Human body in literature --- Barbers in literature --- Surgery in literature --- Literature and medicine --- Barbers --- Surgery --- Medicine in literature --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History --- Human body in literature. --- Barbers in literature. --- Surgery in literature. --- Medicine in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Hair stylists --- Hairstylists --- Stylists, Hair --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Medical care in literature --- Surgery, Primitive --- Medicine --- Barbershops --- Barbering --- Literature, Modern. --- Literature. --- British literature. --- History, Modern. --- Great Britain-History. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- History of Science. --- Literature, general. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Modern History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Great Britain—History.