The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of FleshAn almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison. Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded. |
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... look at the completed image and turns away from the face on his back that " continued to look at him — still , straight , all - demanding , enclosed in silence " ( 526 ) . After a skirmish in town , he heads toward his home , but the ...
... look at the completed image and turns away from the face on his back that " continued to look at him — still , straight , all - demanding , enclosed in silence " ( 526 ) . After a skirmish in town , he heads toward his home , but the ...
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... Look at it ! Don't just say that ! Look at it ! " " I done looked , " she said . " Don't you know who it is ? " he cried in anguish . " No , who is it ? " Sarah Ruth said . " It ain't anybody I know . " " It's him , " Parker said ...
... Look at it ! Don't just say that ! Look at it ! " " I done looked , " she said . " Don't you know who it is ? " he cried in anguish . " No , who is it ? " Sarah Ruth said . " It ain't anybody I know . " " It's him , " Parker said ...
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... look like that ! " " What do you know how he looks ? " Parker moaned . " You ain't seen him . " " He don't look , " Sarah Ruth said . " He's a spirit . No man shall see his face . " " Aw listen , " Parker groaned , " this is just a ...
... look like that ! " " What do you know how he looks ? " Parker moaned . " You ain't seen him . " " He don't look , " Sarah Ruth said . " He's a spirit . No man shall see his face . " " Aw listen , " Parker groaned , " this is just a ...
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Nature and Narratives | 21 |
Wandering Wounds and Meandering Words | 51 |
Speak Daggers But Use None | 69 |
Copyright | |
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