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The Body in Parts - Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, New)
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The Body in Parts - Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, New)
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Examines how the body - its organs, limbs, viscera - was
represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe.
Why did 16th and 17th century medical, religious, and literary
texts portray the body part by part, rather than as an entity? And
what does this view of the human body tell us about society's view
of part and whole, of individual and universal in the early modern
period? As this volume demonstrates, the symbolics of body parts
challenges our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental
Renaissance image of self, society, and nation. The book presents
work by: 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;
Katherine Park on the clitoris; Kathryn Schwartz 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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