The Body Unbound - Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	The New Antiquity
Release date:	September 2022
First published:	2021
Editors:	Katherine Lu Hsu • David Schur • Brian P. Sowers
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	265
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-065808-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	3-03-065808-2
Barcode:	9783030658083

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