Ventriloquized Bodies
Author : Janet L. Beizer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801481420
Ventriloquized Voices
Author : Elizabeth D. Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1134918011
Book Description
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Body
Author : Tiffany Atkinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2005-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1350309508
Book Description
What do we mean when we talk about 'the body'? This Reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of 'the body' throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological 'given', but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities.
Medicine and Maladies
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004368019
Book Description
Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences.
Constructing the Viennese Modern Body
Author : Nathan Timpano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1315413671
Book Description
This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks. It centers on the following question: How and to what end was the human body discussed, portrayed, and utilized as an aesthetic metaphor in turn-of-the-century Vienna? By scrutinizing theatrically “hysterical” performances, avant-garde puppet plays, and images created by Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele and others, Nathan J. Timpano discusses how Viennese artists favored the pathological or puppet-like body as their contribution to European modernism.
The Telling of the Act
Author : Peter Maxwell Cryle
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Erotic stories, French
ISBN : 9780874137484
Book Description
This book tells how the diverting array of pleasures in eighteenth-century libertine fiction gave way, through a process of thematic drift and realignment, to a powerfully linear story that actually defined sex and the gender roles pertaining to it. Many of the key notions in modern talk about sex are in fact narrative ones: climax, foreplay, and the sex act are all said to lie at the heart of human sexuality. But 'The Telling of the Act' questions whether these notions deserve to be thought of as timeless, and in fact locates their emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Tactile Poetics
Author : Sarah Jackson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2015-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748685332
Book Description
A new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact in 20th- and 21st-century literature and theory
The Making of Modern Woman
Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1317876687
Book Description
Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should be and how she should act. From domestic ideology to women's suffrage, this book charts the contests for woman's identity in the epoch-shaping nineteenth century.
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture
Author : Lisa Woolfork
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252092961
Book Description
This study explores contemporary novels, films, performances, and reenactments that depict American slavery and its traumatic effects by invoking a time-travel paradigm to produce a representational strategy of "bodily epistemology." Disrupting the prevailing view of traumatic knowledge that claims that traumatic events are irretrievable and accessible only through oblique reference, these novels and films circumvent the notion of indirect reference by depicting a replaying of the past, forcing present-day protagonists to witness and participate in traumatic histories that for them are neither dead nor past. Lisa Woolfork cogently analyzes how these works deploy a representational strategy that challenges the divide between past and present, imparting to their recreations of American slavery a physical and emotional energy to counter America's apathetic or amnesiac attitude about the trauma of the slave past.
A Centre of Wonders
Author : Janet Moore Lindman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1501717634
Book Description
Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery. The first book devoted solely to the history and theory of the body in early American cultural studies brings together authors representing diverse academic disciplines.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources—including itinerant ministers' journals, Revolutionary tracts and broadsides, advice manuals, and household inventories—they approach the theoretical analysis of the body in exciting new ways. A Centre of Wonders covers such varied topics as dance and movement among Native Americans; invading witch bodies in architecture and household spaces; rituals of baptism, conversion, and church discipline; eighteenth-century women's journaling; and the body as a rhetorical device in the language of diplomacy.
