Textual bodies : changing boundaries of literary representation

Author(s)

• Lefkovitz, Lori Hope

Bibliographic Information

Textual bodies : changing boundaries of literary representation

edited by Lori Hope Lefkovitz

（SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion）

State University of New York Press, c1997

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on the place and treatment of the human body in the Western textual tradition. The work serves the double purpose of providing new, original, and provocative readings of familiar texts by applying the latest innovations in theory to specific works. Topics range from Sappho's fragments through cross-dressing in medieval romance to mutilation in Kathy Acker's Great Expectations. Together the essays illustrate changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation Lori Hope Lefkovitz 1. Sappho's Body in Pieces Page duBois 2. Aristotle, Gynecology, and the Body Sick with Desire Robert Con Davis 3. Cross-Dressing in Medieval Romance Roberta Davidson 4. Devotion and Defilement: The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Corporeal Hagiographics of Chaucer's Prioress's Tale Richard Rambuss 5. The Somaticized Text: Corporeal Semiotic in a Late Medieval Female Hagiography Sheila Delany 6. Shape-Shifting: Fashion, Gender, and Metamorphosis in Eighteenth-Century England Deborah Laycock 7. Mind Over Matter: Sexuality and Where the "body happens to be" in the Alice Books Donald Rackin 8. Oeuvres Intertwined:Walter Pater and Antoine Watteau Gita Rajan 9. Florence Nightingale and the Negation of the Body Miriam Bailin 10. Slapping Women: Ibsen's Nora, Strindberg's Julie, and Freud's Dora Freddie Rokem 11. The "Mutilating Body" and the Decomposing Text: Recovery in Kathy Acker's Great Expectations Martina Sciolino Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA31803477
• ISBN:
  • 0791431614
  • 0791431622
• LCCN: 96021758
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany, NY
• Pages/Volumes: x, 291 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN56.B62
  • DC20 : 809/.9336
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA1931526X