The Wounded Body - Remembering the Markings of Flesh (Paperback)

An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom.

The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison. Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Release date:	November 1999
First published:	March 2000
Authors:	Dennis Patrick Slattery
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	293
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-4382-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	0-7914-4382-5
Barcode:	9780791443828

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