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The Body Unbound - Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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The Body Unbound - Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: The New Antiquity
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This book explores the body's 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 volume's essays suggest that the body's
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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