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Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines , de Martina Censi, explore les représentations du corps dans un corpus de romans en arabe publiés (entre 2004 et 2011) par six écrivaines syriennes. L’auteure conjugue l'analyse du texte littéraire avec la critique féministe et les études de genre. Par cette approche interdisciplinaire, Censi démontre que l'attention reservée par ces écrivaines aux représentations du corps féminin et masculin témoigne de leurs engagements dans la lutte pour l'émancipation des femmes, mais aussi, et surtout, dans celle pour l'affirmation de l'individu dans la société syrienne contemporaine. Les corps des personnages, marqués par leur différence unique, sont le lieu symbolique de la négociation entre les instances individuelles et collectives. In Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines , Martina Censi explores the representation of the body in a selection of Arabic novels published (between 2004 and 2011) by six Syrian women authors. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, which combines analysis of the literary texts with Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies, Censi demonstrates that, by focusing on the representation of female and male bodies, these novelists deal not only with feminist issues related to women's emancipation. The author reveals that they also engage in a broader analysis concerning the status of the individual in contemporary Syrian society. Marked by their unique difference, the characters’ bodies become the symbolic location for the negotiation between individual and collective claims.
Arabic fiction --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Arabic literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors
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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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Recent narrative fiction and film increasingly exploit, explore and thematize the embodied mind, revealing the tenacity of a certain brand of humanism. The presence of narratively based concepts of personal identity even in texts which explore posthuman possibilities is strong proof that our basic understanding of what it means to be human has, despite appearances, remained mostly unchanged. This is so even though our perception of time has been greatly modified by the same technology which both interrupts and allows for the rearrangement of our experience of time at a rate and a level of ease which, until recently, had never been possible. Basing his views on a long line of philosophers and literary theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Daniel Dennett and Francisco Varela, Escobar maintains in The Persistence of the Human that narrative plays an essential role in the process of constituting and maintaining a sense of self. It is narrative’s effect on the embodied mind which gives it such force. Narrative projects us into possible spaces, shaping a temporary corporeality termed the “meta-body,” a hybrid shared by the lived body and an imagined corporeal sense. The meta-body is a secondary embodiment that we inhabit for however long our narrative immersion lasts – something which, in today’s world, may be a question of milliseconds or hours. The more agreeable the meta-body is, the less happy we are upon being abruptly removed from it, though the return is essential. We want to be able to slip back and forth between this secondary embodiment and that of our lived body; each move entails both forgetting and remembering different subject positions (loss and recuperation being salient themes in the works which highlight this process). The negotiation of the transfer between these states is shaped by culture and technology and this is something which is precisely in flux now as multiple, ephemeral narrative immersion experiences are created by the different screens we come into contact with.
Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures. --- Human body in literature. --- Self-perception in motion pictures. --- Self-perception in literature. --- Human body in motion pictures. --- Body, Human, in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- 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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Libre Acceso stages an innovative encounter between disciplines that have remained quite separate: Latin American literary, film, and cultural studies and disability studies. It offers a much-needed framework to engage the representation, construction, embodiment, and contestation of human differences, and provides tools for the urgent resignification of a robust and diverse Latin American literary and filmic tradition. The contributors discuss such topics as impairment, trauma, illness and the body, performance, queer theory, subaltern studies, and human rights, while analyzing literature and film from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru. They explore these issues through the work of canonical figures Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, João Guimarães Rosa, and others, as well as less well-known figures, including Mario Bellatin and Miriam Alves.
Human body in literature. --- People with disabilities in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- People with disabilities in literature. --- Spanish American literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Handicapped in motion pictures --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- History and criticism.
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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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Investigación sobre las interacciones entre religión, literatura y teatro en los inicios de la Edad Moderna. Repasa, con una atención dominante a los elementos visuales y a la retórica, cuestiones como la presencia de lo sobrenatural en la obra de Shakespeare y Cervantes, la comedia áurea como casuística, la retórica del exorcismo en textos de la época o el vestuario usado para representar los pecados capitales en los autos sacramentales.
English literature --- Exorcism in literature. --- Spanish literature --- Comparative literature --- Christianity and literature --- Demoniac possession in literature. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- English and Spanish. --- Spanish and English.
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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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This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there has been increasing concern surrounding human enhancement technologies, with the techno-scientific movement of Transhumanism arguing that it is time humans took active control of their evolution. Utilising Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the rhizome as a non-hierarchical system of knowledge to conceptualize the superhero narrative in terms of its political, social and aesthetic relations to the history of human technological enhancement, this book draws upon a diverse range of texts to explore the way in which the posthuman has been represented in superhero comics, while simultaneously highlighting its shared historical development with Post/Humanist critical theory and the material techno-scientific practices of Transhumanism.
Culture --- United States --- Communication. --- Literature, Modern --- Philosophy. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Media and Communication. --- American Culture. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Study and teaching. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Superheroes. --- Science fiction comic books, strips, etc --- Human body in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Mental philosophy --- Literature --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Cultural studies --- Science fiction comic books, strips, etc. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Comic book heroes --- Super heroes --- Fictitious characters --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Humanities --- Sociology --- United States—Study and teaching. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century.
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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.
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