[PDF] Transient Bodies In Anglophone Literature And Culture eBook

Author : Sarah Schäfer-Althaus
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
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ISBN : 9783825346638

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Located at the intersections of significant phases of life, the transient body is often at the same time a body in transition. With particular interest in Anglophone literatures from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the present collection explores the fragility of the body and human existence from historical, literary, and cultural perspectives. It discusses narrative, poetic, and aesthetic strategies employed to imagine and document transitions from one stage of life to another. The volume focuses on bodily rites of passage between pregnancy and birth, childhood and adulthood, and old age and death. Moreover, the contributions investigate the transcendence of corporeality with regard to medical and religious practices, disease and decay, and the struggle with ageing and a wish for longevity, as well as the challenge of social taboos.

Author : Nicole Maruo-Schröder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100096177X

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Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling. The case studies assembled in this volume discuss a variety of traveling practices, experiences, and media with chapters featuring Asian, American, and European historical and contemporary perspectives. Truly interdisciplinary in its approach, the volume identifies and examines diverse literary, historical and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which traveling and the body intersect, including ‘classic’ travelogues, (new) media (e.g., film, digital travel apps), surf culture, and travel-inspired tattoos. The contributions offer various avenues for further research, not only for scholars working with body theory and travel (writing), but also for anyone interested in the intersections of literature, culture, media, and embodied practices of traveling.

Author : Sandra Dinter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3031170202

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Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture analyses the cultural and literary histories of medicine and mobility as entangled processes whose discourses and practices constituted, influenced, and transformed each other. Presenting case studies of novels, poetry, travel narratives, diaries, ship magazines, skin care manuals, asylum records, press reports, and various other sources, its chapters identify and discuss diverse literary, historical, and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which medicine and mobility intersected in nineteenth-century Britain, its empire, and beyond, whereby they illustrate how the paradigms of mobility studies and the medical humanities can complement each other.

Author : Jaine Chemmachery
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793625689

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Mobility and Corporeality in 19th and 21st Century Anglophone Literature: Bodies in Motion aims at exploring the intersection of literary, mobility and body studies in Anglophone literature from the 19th century to the 21st century. Corporeal mobility includes a variety of mobile bodies that have long been othered and marginalised due to issues pertaining to gender, disability, race, and class. Yet there is a relative lack of academic work on it, despite the fact that Anglophone literature has increasingly portrayed the circulation of characters, objects, and information since the 19th century, echoing the many types of mobility that have occurred through processes of colonisation, decolonisation and globalisation. This book, therefore, discusses the ways in which literatures produced in the English-speaking world challenge normative depictions of bodies on the move and reconceptualise them by making corporeality an essential feature of movement across the world.

Author : Laura Di Prete
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780415867177

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Christoph Behrens
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 3643141319

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Populärkultur ist zugleich Schauplatz und Gegenstand diverser Diskurse um Produktion, Inszenierung und Repräsentation von Geschlecht. Das Spektrum der Diskussionen entspricht dabei der Diversität der Medien und Akteur*innen. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge aus den Kultur-, Medien- und Sozialwissenschaften, in denen untersucht wird, wie Geschlecht in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Öffentlichkeit mittels verschiedener Medien verhandelt und repräsentiert wird. Darüber hinaus werden geschlechtsspezifische Produktionsbedingungen von Populärkultur sowie deren Vermarktung und Rezeption in herkömmlichen und webbasierten Medien analysiert. Die Bandbreite der betrachteten Medien und Genres reicht dabei von Neuer Frauenliteratur, nicht-heteronormen Bilderbüchern, Mommy Blogs und Beauty Videos über Actionfilm und Musikvideos bis hin zu Körperinszenierungen jugendlicher Nachwuchsathleten und filmischer Online-Pornographie.

Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2597 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134468474

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Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Author : Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1350405450

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Exploring the relationship between hermeneutics and the arts, including painting, music, and literature, this book builds on hermeneutics from a practical perspective, connecting this area of critical research with others to reveal how it is viewed from different perspectives. International and interdisciplinary in scope, this edited volume draws on the work of scholars and practitioners working across a variety of subject areas, themes and topics, including philosophy, literature, religious paintings, musical oeuvres, Chinese urbanscapes, Moroccan proverbs, and Ukrainian internet blogs. Focusing on the idea of hermeneutics as a discipline that can connect different areas of interest, the book offers an inside view into how the contributors 'interpret' it within their own academic remits, demonstrating its presence in qualitative academic interpretations and canonical contemporary research in humanities.

Author : Marion Gymnich
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 3899717759

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Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today's media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death. In this volume, early modern ideas of feasting, banqueting and culinary pleasures are juxtaposed with post-18th- and 19th-century concepts in which the intake of food is increasingly subjected to moral, theological and economic reservations. In a wide range of essays, various images, rhetorics and poetics of plenty are not only contrasted with the horrors of gluttony, they are also seen in the context of modern phenomena such as the anorexic body or the gourmandizing bête humaine. It is this vexing binary approach to eating and food which this volume traces within a wide chronological framework and which is at the core not only of literature, art and film, but also of a flourishing popular culture. --

Author : Suman Gupta
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0745658199

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This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with the manner in which globalization is thematized in literary works, examines the relationship between globalization theory and literary theory, and discusses the impact of globalization processes on the production and reception of literary texts. Suman Gupta argues that, while literature has registered globalization processes in relevant ways, there has been a missed articulation between globalization studies and literary studies. Examples are given of some of the ways in which this slippage is now being addressed and may be taken forward, taking up such themes as the manner in which anti-globalization protests and world cities have figured in literary works; the ways in which theories of postmodernism and postcolonialism, familiar in literary studies, have diverged from and converged with globalization studies; and how industries to do with the circulation of literature are becoming globalized. This book is intended for university-level students and teachers, researchers, and other informed readers with an interest in the above issues, and serves as both a survey of the field and an intervention within it.