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Title
The body unbound : literary approaches to the classical corpus / Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur, Brian P. Sowers, editors.
ISBN
9783030658069 (electronic bk.)
3030658066 (electronic bk.)
9783030658052
3030658058
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-65806-9 doi
Call Number
PN56.B62 B63 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.933561
Summary
This book explores the bodys 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 volumes essays suggest that the bodys 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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Includes index.
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Series
New antiquity.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030658052
1. Introduction; Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur, Brian P. Sowers2. Pain, Power, and Human Community: Empathy as a 'Physical Problem' in Pseudo-Aristotle and Beyond; Brooke Holmes3. The Dread Wayfarer: Philoctetes' Foot; David Schur4. Wounded Immortals: The Painful Paradoxes of Prometheus and Chiron; Katherine Lu Hsu5. Deep Cuts: Rhetoric of Human Dissection, Vivisection, and Surgery in Latin Literature; Michael Goyette6. Why is Male Breast Milk Kosher?: Breastfeeding, Gender, and the Leaky Body in Rabbinic Literature; Jordan D. Rosenblum7. Fragment as Plenitude: Victricius of Rouen on Saintly Bodies; Virginia Burrus8. Violating Vergil's Corpus: The Penetrated Body in Cento Literature; Brian P. Sowers9. Nothing to Lose: Logsex and Genital Injury in Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations; Karl Steel10. The Risks of Riding a Dolphin: A Motif in Some Greek and Roman Narratives of Desire; Craig Williams11. Sinister Adaptation: Sensationalism and Violence against Women in Anglo-American Cinema and Roman Drama; T.H.M. Gellar-Goad.
