Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary RepresentationLori Hope Lefkovitz State University of New York Press, 9 ene 1997 - 292 páginas In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on the place and treatment of the human body in the Western textual tradition. The work serves the double purpose of providing new, original, and provocative readings of familiar texts by applying the latest innovations in theory to specific works. Topics range from Sappho's fragments through cross-dressing in medieval romance to mutilation in Kathy Acker's Great Expectations. Together the essays illustrate changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon. |
Índice
Sapphos Body in Pieces | 19 |
Aristotle Gynecology and the Body Sick with Desire | 35 |
CrossDressing in Medieval Romance | 59 |
The Blessed Virgin Mary | 75 |
Corporeal Semiotic in a Late | 101 |
Fashion Gender and Metamorphosis | 127 |
Sexuality and Where | 161 |
Walter Pater | 185 |
Florence Nightingale and the Negation of the Body | 207 |
Ibsens Nora Strindbergs Julie | 221 |
Contributors | 267 |
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Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation Lori Hope Lefkovitz Vista previa restringida - 1997 |
Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation Lori Hope Lefkovitz Vista previa restringida - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
Acker Alexander Pope Alice Alice Liddell Alice's Antoine Watteau Aristotle Aristotle's bodily Bokenham Cambridge Carroll's century Chaucer's Christian Christine de Pizan clergeon credit economy critical cross-dressing cultural Curll depicted desire discourse Dodgson Doll's House Dora dream dress edition eighteenth-century erotic essay fashion female body feminine feminism feminist fiction figure fragmented Freud Gay's gender Greek hagiography heroine human hupokeimenon Ibsen Ida Bauer identity innocence John John Gay Lady Lewis Carroll literary literature London Looking-Glass male Marguerite's Marie Marguerite Mary's masculine medieval metamorphosis miracles Miss Julie mother narrative natural Nightingale Nora nurse Ovid Oxford Pater physical poem political Pope position Press Prioress's Tale psychoanalytic Rape reader relations representation saints Sappho's scientific semen sexual shape-shifting slap social story symbolic theory tion trans transformation translation uterus Victorian Virgin vols Walter Pater Watteau Watteau's art White Knight woman women Wonderland writing York