The Body Unbound
Produktnummer:
187ff521ab69d34e2589c0d8aedb5dee35
| Themengebiete: | Ancient body Classical reception Gender Studies Theory of the body ancient literature comparative studies |
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| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 24.09.2022 |
| EAN: | 9783030658083 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 265 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Hsu, Katherine Lu Schur, David Sowers, Brian P. |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Untertitel: | Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus |
Produktinformationen "The Body Unbound"
This book explores the body’s physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and critical theory and examining material ranging from Homer to Game of Thrones, this volume facilitates an interdisciplinary investigation into how the boundaries of the body define the human form in language. This volume’s essays suggest that the body’s meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its wholeness. The boundaries of the body are areas of transition between states and are therefore vulnerable. As individuals find themselves isolated from their world and one another, their bodies regularly allow for physical interactions, incur transgressions and violations, and undergo profound transformations. Thus sympathy, sexuality, disease, and violence are among the main themes of the volume, which, ultimately, reexamines the place of the body in our understanding of what it means to be human.
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