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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... meaning attendant upon our own incarnation . The body exists in the world in limited space and time such that much of its meaning is gained by means of remembrances and desires , expressed through lan- guage and the body's woundedness ...
... meaning attendant upon our own incarnation . The body exists in the world in limited space and time such that much of its meaning is gained by means of remembrances and desires , expressed through lan- guage and the body's woundedness ...
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... meaning suggests " a coming into presence of the usually absent divinity " ; it also car- ries an ambiguous shadow , " the possibility of a spasm that may kill or cure , or kill as it cures " ( 232 ) . The original meaning of the term ...
... meaning suggests " a coming into presence of the usually absent divinity " ; it also car- ries an ambiguous shadow , " the possibility of a spasm that may kill or cure , or kill as it cures " ( 232 ) . The original meaning of the term ...
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... meaning is as much Ish- mael's hermeneutic project as is learning the craft of whaling ; both enter- prises , as he ... meaning out of it . Each body bears its own inscription of meanings : Queequeg's tattoos , Ahab's " rod - like mark ...
... meaning is as much Ish- mael's hermeneutic project as is learning the craft of whaling ; both enter- prises , as he ... meaning out of it . Each body bears its own inscription of meanings : Queequeg's tattoos , Ahab's " rod - like mark ...
Contents
Nature and Narratives | 21 |
Wandering Wounds and Meandering Words | 51 |
Speak Daggers But Use None | 69 |
Copyright | |
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