Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation

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Lori Hope Lefkovitz
SUNY Press, 9 ene 1997 - 291 páginas
Illustrates changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.

 

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Textual Bodies Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation
1
Sapphos Body in Pieces
19
Aristotle Gynecology and the Body Sick with Desire
35
CrossDressing in Medieval Romance
59
Devotion and Defilement The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Corporeal Hagiographics of Chaucers Prioresss Tale
75
The Somaticized Text Corporeal Semiotic in a Late Medieval Female Hagiography
101
ShapeShifting Fashion Gender and Metamorphosis in EighteenthCentury England
127
Mind over Matter Sexuality and Where the body happens to be in the Alice Books
161
Oeuvres Intertwined Walter Pater and Antoine Watteau
185
Florence Nightingale and the Negation of the Body
207
Slapping Women Ibsens Nora Strindbergs Julie and Freuds Dora
221
The Mutilating Body and the Decomposing Text Recovery in Kathy Ackers Great Expectations
245
CONTRIBUTORS
267
INDEX
271
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Lori Hope Lefkovitz is on the faculty of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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