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Blood is life, its complex composition is finely attuned to our vital needs and functions. Blood can also signify death, while 'bloody' is a curse. Arising from the 2021 Darwin College Lectures, this volume invites leading thinkers on the subject to explore the many meanings of blood across a diverse range of disciplines. Through the eyes of artist Marc Quinn, the paradoxical nature of blood plays with the notion of self. Through those of geneticist Walter Bodmer, it becomes a scientific reality: bloodlines and diaspora capture our notions of community. The transfer of blood between bodies, as Rose George relates, can save lives, or as we learn from Claire Roddie can cure cancer. Tim Pedley and Stuart Egginton explore the extraordinary complexity of blood as a critical biological fluid. Sarah Read examines the intimate connection between blood and womanhood, as Carol Senf does in her consideration of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.

Blood. --- Blood --- Blood in art. --- Blood in literature. --- Social aspects.

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Blood --- Hematology --- Blood in literature. --- Sang --- Hématologie --- Sang dans la littérature --- Diseases --- Maladies --- Sang dans la littérature --- Blood in literature --- Symbolic aspects --- History --- Hematology - Popular works --- Blood - Diseases - Popular works --- Blood - Popular works

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Sex in literature. --- Blood in literature. --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Sang dans la littérature --- Houellebecq, Michel.

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In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the context of anthropological and religious studies, McCracken offers a provocative examination of the ways gendered cultural values were mapped onto blood in the Middle Ages.As McCracken demonstrates, blood is gendered when that of men is prized in stories about battle and that of women is excluded from the public arena in which social and political hierarchies are contested and defined through chivalric contest. In her examination of the conceptualization of familial relationships, she uncovers the privileges that are grounded in gendered definitions of blood relationships. She shows that in narratives about sacrifice a father's relationship to his son is described as a shared blood, whereas texts about women accused of giving birth to monstrous children define the mother's contribution to conception in terms of corrupted, often menstrual blood. Turning to fictional representations of bloody martyrdom and of eucharistic ritual, McCracken juxtaposes the blood of the wounded guardian of the grail with that of Christ and suggests that the blood from the grail king's wound is characterized in opposition to that of women and Jewish men.Drawing on a range of French and other literary texts, McCracken shows how the dominant ideas about blood in medieval culture point to ways of seeing modern values associated with blood in a new light, and how modern representations in turn suggest new perspectives on medieval perceptions.

Blood in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Sex role in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Blood in literature --- Sex role in literature --- History and criticism --- Jewish Studies. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- LITTERATURE MEDIEVALE --- SANG DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ROLE SELON LE SEXE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE