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The rich legacy of women's contributions to Irish theatre is traditionally viewed through a male-dominated literary canon and mythmaking, thus arguably silencing their work. In this timely book, Shonagh Hill proposes a feminist genealogy which brings new perspectives to women's mythmaking across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The performances considered include the tableaux vivants performed by the Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland), plays written by Alice Milligan, Maud Gonne, Lady Augusta Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Mary Devenport O'Neill, Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, Paula Meehan, Edna O'Brien and Marina Carr, as well as plays translated, adapted and performed by Olwen Fouéré. The theatrical work discussed resists the occlusion of women's cultural engagement that results from confinement to idealised myths of femininity. This is realised through embodied mythmaking: a process which exposes how bodies bear the consequences of these myths, while refusing to accept the female body as passive bearer of inscription through the assertion of a creative female corporeality.
English drama --- Women in the theater --- Theater --- Feminism and theater --- Women in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Theater and feminism --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Irish authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- Political aspects
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In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes—religion, secularity, race, historiography, health, and sexuality—and examines how those bodies act in relation to those regimes. In analyses of the use of rhythmic dance by the Shakers; African American slave narratives; literature by Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, Herman Melville, and others; and how Catholic sacraments conjoined people across historical boundaries, Freeman makes the case for the body as an instrument of what she calls queer hypersociality. As a mode of being in which bodies are connected to others and their histories across and throughout time, queer hypersociality, Freeman contends, provides the means for subjugated bodies to escape disciplinary regimes of time and to create new social worlds.
Time --- Homosexuality --- Time perception in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- American literature --- Literature and society --- Queer theory. --- Social aspects --- History --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Gender identity --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Literary Criticism --- Semiotics & Theory --- Social Science --- Gender Studies --- Ethnic Studies/African American Studies
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays, containing chapters from specialists in history, art history, medical history, and literature, examines how the intimately familiar language of the body served as a convenient medium through which to imagine and describe transformations of the larger world, both for the better and also for the worse. Its individual contributors demonstrate the myriad ways in which rethinking the human body was one way to approach rethinking the social, political, and religious realities of the world from the Middle Ages until the early modern period.
Christian theology --- Human physiology --- Iconography --- Thematology --- tear [secretion] --- blood [animal material] --- crying [weeping] --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- Human body --- Human body in literature --- Human figure in art --- Human body in literature. --- Symbolic aspects. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Mind and body --- Human body in art --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Symbolic aspects of the human body --- Symbolism --- Blood. --- bodily humours. --- corporeality. --- devotion. --- emotions. --- tears. --- crying --- lichaam (van de mens)
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091:61 --- 091 =20 --- 091 "1250/14" --- Literature and medicine --- Diseases --- English literature --- Human body in literature --- Causation in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Human beings --- Illness --- Illnesses --- Morbidity --- Sickness --- Sicknesses --- Medicine --- Epidemiology --- Health --- Pathology --- Sick --- Medicine and literature --- 091 "1250/14" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--13e-15e eeuw. Periode 1250-1499 ('late middeleeuwen') --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--13e-15e eeuw. Periode 1250-1499 ('late middeleeuwen') --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091:61 Handschriften i.v.m. geneeskunde --- Handschriften i.v.m. geneeskunde --- History --- Causes and theories of causation --- History and criticism
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