The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0415916941 ISBN 13: 9780415916943

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

Riassunto

An examination of how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. This provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolism of body parts challenge our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation.

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L'autore:

Carla Mazzio and David Hillman are both Teaching Fellows in the Department of English at Harvard.

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Examines how the body - its organs, limbs, viscera - was represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. Why did 16th and 17th century medical, religious, and literary texts portray the body part by part, rather than as an entity? And what does this view of the human body tell us about society's view of part and whole, of individual and universal in the early modern period? As this volume demonstrates, the symbolics of body parts challenges our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation. The book presents work by: Nancy Vickers on corporeal fragments; Peter Stallybrass on the foot; Marjorie Garber on joints; Stephen Greenblatt on bodily marking and mutilation; Gail Kern Paster on the nervous system; Michael Schoenfeldt on the belly; Jeffrey Masten on the anus; Katherine Park on the clitoris; Kathryn Schwartz on the breast; Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky on the eye; Katherine Rowe on the hands; Scott Stevens on the heart and brain; Carla Mazzio on the tongue; and David Hillman on the entrails.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415916941
• ISBN 13: 9780415916943
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 376
• Redattore: Hillman David