Ventriloquized Bodies
Author | : Janet L. Beizer |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801481420 |
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Author | : Janet L. Beizer |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801481420 |
Author | : Elizabeth D. Harvey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1134918011 |
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Tiffany Atkinson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230213367 |
What do we mean when we talk about 'the body'? This Reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of 'the body' throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological 'given', but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities.
Author | : Mary Simonson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199898014 |
This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues.
Author | : Nathan Timpano |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2017-05-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1315413671 |
This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks. It centers on the following question: How and to what end was the human body discussed, portrayed, and utilized as an aesthetic metaphor in turn-of-the-century Vienna? By scrutinizing theatrically “hysterical” performances, avant-garde puppet plays, and images created by Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele and others, Nathan J. Timpano discusses how Viennese artists favored the pathological or puppet-like body as their contribution to European modernism.
Author | : Peter Maxwell Cryle |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Erotic stories, French |
ISBN | : 9780874137484 |
This book tells how the diverting array of pleasures in eighteenth-century libertine fiction gave way, through a process of thematic drift and realignment, to a powerfully linear story that actually defined sex and the gender roles pertaining to it. Many of the key notions in modern talk about sex are in fact narrative ones: climax, foreplay, and the sex act are all said to lie at the heart of human sexuality. But 'The Telling of the Act' questions whether these notions deserve to be thought of as timeless, and in fact locates their emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Author | : Sarah Jackson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2015-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748685332 |
A new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact in 20th- and 21st-century literature and theory
Author | : Lynn Abrams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317876687 |
Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should be and how she should act. From domestic ideology to women's suffrage, this book charts the contests for woman's identity in the epoch-shaping nineteenth century.
Author | : Lisa Woolfork |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252092961 |
This study explores contemporary novels, films, performances, and reenactments that depict American slavery and its traumatic effects by invoking a time-travel paradigm to produce a representational strategy of "bodily epistemology." Disrupting the prevailing view of traumatic knowledge that claims that traumatic events are irretrievable and accessible only through oblique reference, these novels and films circumvent the notion of indirect reference by depicting a replaying of the past, forcing present-day protagonists to witness and participate in traumatic histories that for them are neither dead nor past. Lisa Woolfork cogently analyzes how these works deploy a representational strategy that challenges the divide between past and present, imparting to their recreations of American slavery a physical and emotional energy to counter America's apathetic or amnesiac attitude about the trauma of the slave past.
Author | : Janet Moore Lindman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501717634 |
Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery. The first book devoted solely to the history and theory of the body in early American cultural studies brings together authors representing diverse academic disciplines.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources—including itinerant ministers' journals, Revolutionary tracts and broadsides, advice manuals, and household inventories—they approach the theoretical analysis of the body in exciting new ways. A Centre of Wonders covers such varied topics as dance and movement among Native Americans; invading witch bodies in architecture and household spaces; rituals of baptism, conversion, and church discipline; eighteenth-century women's journaling; and the body as a rhetorical device in the language of diplomacy.