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Le sang fascine. Encore aujourd’hui, il renferme une charge d’émotion et de mystère, qui trouve ses racines dans les anciens systèmes de représentation, de la fin du Moyen Age au XVIIIe siècle. L’ancienne médecine inscrit le sang dans le système des quatre humeurs et en fait un véritable «trésor de vie». Elle l’associe aux «esprits» -qui constituent l’interface entre l’âme et le corps-, au cœur, aux émotions. Le sang est également relié aux questions de genre et d’identité sexuelle. Le sang féminin ne vaut pas le sang masculin. Le sang menstruel, objet d’une véritable mythologie, est associé la souillure, au déchet et au poison. Mais le sang est aussi à la base d’un aliment aussi essentiel que symbolique, le lait, évoqué dans les discours dédiés à l’allaitement et au choix des nourrices. Le sang ne relève pas uniquement du domaine sanitaire : sa représentation convoque des notions-clés comme l’articulation entre le corps et l’âme, la définition et la transmission de l’identité. Il intervient dans la construction d’un véritable « déterminisme hématologique » -dans lequel les caractéristiques physiques et morales se transmettent par le sang-, dans des pratiques d’exclusion, mais aussi dans des discours de tolérance et de la solidarité. Cette rapide évocation des perceptions et des enjeux du sang révèle la densité et la complexité des représentations qui y sont associées. C’est cet héritage ancien, mais jamais oublié, que cet ouvrage se propose d’explorer.

Blood --- Blood in literature. --- Blood in art. --- Human body --- Symbolic aspects --- History. --- Social aspects --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Body fluids --- Fear of blood --- médecine --- représentation --- sang

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In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life, a medical cure, a serum appearing under the guise of all other bodily secretions, and-after William Harvey's discovery of its circulation-the cause of one of the greatest medical controversies of the premodern period. Figurative uses of "blood" are even more difficult to pin down. The term appeared in almost every sphere of life and thought, running through political, theological, and familial discourses.Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation. Theatrical and medical practice are found to converge in their approaches to the regulation of blood as a source of identity and truth; medieval civic life intersects with seventeenth-century science and philosophy; the concepts of class, race, gender, and sexuality find in the language of blood as many mechanisms for differentiation as for homogeneity; and fields as disparate as pedagogical theory, alchemy, phlebotomy, wet-nursing, and wine production emerge as historically and intellectually analogous. The volume's essays are organized within categories derived from medieval and early modern understanding of blood behaviors-Circulation, Wounds, Corruption, Proof, and Signs and Substances-thereby providing the terms through which interdisciplinary and cross-period conversations can take place.Contributors: Helen Barr, Katharine Craik, Lesel Dawson, Eleanor Decamp, Frances E. Dolan, Elisabeth Dutton, Margaret Healy, Dolly Jørgensen, Helen King, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Joe Moshenska, Tara Nummedal, Patricia Parker, Ben Parsons, Heather Webb, Gabriella Zuccolin.

Blood in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- European literature --- Blood --- History and criticism. --- Symbolic aspects --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Social aspects --- Cultural Studies. --- European History. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- World History.

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Fiction --- Drama --- Thematology --- French literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Cruauté dans la littérature --- Cruelty in literature --- Wreedheid in de literatuur --- French drama --- French fiction --- Cruelty in literature. --- Blood in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Théâtre français --- Roman français --- Sang dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- Horror plays, French --- Blood in literature --- Horror plays, French. --- Théâtre français --- Roman français --- Cruauté dans la littérature --- Sang dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- 16th century --- History and criticism --- 17th century --- Tales --- France --- French drama - 17th century --- French drama - 16th century --- French literature - 17th century --- French literature - 16th century

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Blood Novels examines the significance of women's blood and bloodlines in nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture, advancing the study of gender in modern Iberian studies.

Blood in literature. --- Caste in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- Social status in literature. --- Spanish fiction --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Benito Pérez Galdós. --- Iberian. --- Juan Valera. --- Leopoldo Alas. --- Philippines. --- Spain. --- Spanish literature. --- blood. --- bloodlines. --- caste. --- feminist literary criticism. --- gender. --- limpieza de sangre. --- race. --- realism. --- 1800-1899

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Pynchon, Thomas --- Faulkner, William --- Morrison, Toni --- Bloed in de literatuur --- Blood in literature --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Geweld in de literatuur --- Menstruatie in de literatuur --- Menstruation dans la littérature --- Menstruation in literature --- Regeneration in literature --- Sang dans la littérature --- Symboliek in de literatuur --- Symbolism in literature --- Symbolisme dans la littérature --- Violence dans la littérature --- Violence in literature --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- American fiction --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Characters --- Women