| The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe Contributor(s): Hillman, David (Editor), Mazzio, Carla (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415916941 ISBN-13: 9780415916943 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1997 Annotation: "The Body In Parts" examines how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. Why did sixteenth- and seventeenth-century medical, religious, and literary texts so often imagine the body part by part? What does this view of the human body tell us about social conceptions of part and whole, of individual and universal in the early modern period? As this provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolics of body parts challenge our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation. "The Body In Parts" presents work by some of the leading figures in Renaissance literature and culture: 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; Katharine Park on the clitoris; Kathryn Schwarz 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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| BISAC Categories: - Design | Graphic Arts - Illustration - History | Modern - 17th Century - Medical | Anatomy |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 97-1481 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.04" W x 9.04" (1.15 lbs) 376 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |