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Tears, Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages - Niobe's Siblings (Hardcover)
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Tears, Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages - Niobe's Siblings (Hardcover)
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Taking in works from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare,
William Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronte, John Keats, James Joyce and
D.H. Lawrence, this book spans approximately 300 years and unpacks
how bodily liquidity, porosity and petrification recur as a pattern
and underlie the chequered history of the body and genders in
literature. Lennartz examines the precarious relationship between
porosity and its opposite - closure, containment and stoniness -
and explores literary history as a meandering narrative in which
'female' porosity and 'manly' stoniness clash, showing how
different societies and epochs respond to and engage with bodily
porosity. This book considers the ways that this relationship is
constantly renegotiated and where effusive and 'feminine' genres,
such as 'sloppy' letters and streams of consciousness, are pitted
against stony and astringent forms of masculinity, like epitaphs,
sonnets and the Bildungsroman.
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