001476918 000__ 05646nam\a22009495i\4500 001476918 001__ 1476918 001476918 003__ DE-B1597 001476918 005__ 20231017003317.0 001476918 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001476918 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001476918 008__ 230808t20232023nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001476918 020__ $$a9781531501594 001476918 0247_ $$a10.1515/9781531501594$$2doi 001476918 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)658551 001476918 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001476918 0410_ $$aeng 001476918 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001476918 050_4 $$aDP614 001476918 072_7 $$aLIT019000$$2bisacsh 001476918 08204 $$a964.025 001476918 1001_ $$aSpragins, Elizabeth, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001476918 24512 $$aA Grammar of the Corpse :$$bNecroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean /$$cElizabeth Spragins. 001476918 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2023] 001476918 264_4 $$c©2023 001476918 300__ $$a1 online resource (224 p.) :$$b4 b/w illustrations 001476918 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001476918 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001476918 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001476918 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001476918 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$tA GRAMMAR OF THE CORPSE -- $$tIntroduction: Necroepistemology -- $$t1. Presence: Here Are the Dead -- $$t2. Absence: Disappearing the Royal Dead -- $$t3. Vitality: Wounded Narrators and the Living Dead -- $$t4. Assemblage: Recovering Diplomatic Power with Corpses -- $$t5. Erasure: Corpse Desecration for Narrative Control -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001476918 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001476918 520__ $$aNo matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies-rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography.A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in historical narrative is not incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative: providing tangible evidence of the narrator's reliability while provoking an affective response in the audience. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators' own bodies and makes them useful but subversive tools of communication and knowledge.A Grammar of the Corpse complements recent work in medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean studies to account for the confessional, ethnic, linguistic, and political diversity of the region. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, the book responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries. 001476918 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001476918 546__ $$aIn English. 001476918 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023) 001476918 650_0 $$aAlcazarquivir, Battle of, Qaṣr al-Kabīr, Larache, Morocco, 1578. 001476918 650_0 $$aBattle casualties$$xMiscellanea. 001476918 650_0 $$aDead in literature. 001476918 650_0 $$aDead. 001476918 650_0 $$aDiscourse analysis. 001476918 650_4 $$aLiterary Studies. 001476918 650_4 $$aMiddle Eastern Studies. 001476918 650_4 $$aRenaissance Studies. 001476918 650_7 $$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.$$2bisacsh 001476918 653__ $$aIberian Union. 001476918 653__ $$aIberian studies. 001476918 653__ $$aMediterranean studies. 001476918 653__ $$aal-Qasr al-Kabir. 001476918 653__ $$acorpse. 001476918 653__ $$adeath and dying. 001476918 653__ $$aepistemology. 001476918 653__ $$ahistoriography. 001476918 653__ $$aindex. 001476918 653__ $$aviolence. 001476918 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001476918 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023$$z9783110751673 001476918 852__ $$bebk 001476918 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781531501594$$zOnline Access $$91476733.1 001476918 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1476918$$pGLOBAL_SET 001476918 912__ $$a978-3-11-075167-3 Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023$$b2023 001476918 912__ $$aEBA_CL_LT 001476918 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001476918 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_LT 001476918 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001476918 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001476918 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001476918 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001476918 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001476918 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001476918 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001476918 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001476918 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001476918 980__ $$aBIB 001476918 980__ $$aEBOOK 001476918 982__ $$aEbook 001476918 983__ $$aOnline