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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... mirror and a little later , the plate glass window , give rise to two ideas : self - reflection and transparency - with Rousseau's life writing be- coming culturally the great exposé of the Self . Language , then , becomes a mirror in ...
... mirror and a little later , the plate glass window , give rise to two ideas : self - reflection and transparency - with Rousseau's life writing be- coming culturally the great exposé of the Self . Language , then , becomes a mirror in ...
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... mirror , he observes that when we see ourselves reflected in a mirror , it is not simply our selves that we see . Rather , if we stay with the experience of the image in the mirror , " the self in reflection is a figure in a narrative ...
... mirror , he observes that when we see ourselves reflected in a mirror , it is not simply our selves that we see . Rather , if we stay with the experience of the image in the mirror , " the self in reflection is a figure in a narrative ...
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... mirror here . He writes that " the mirror itself is the instrument of a universal magic that changes things into a spectacle , spectacles into things , myself into another and another into myself " ( Primacy of Perception , 168 ) . The ...
... mirror here . He writes that " the mirror itself is the instrument of a universal magic that changes things into a spectacle , spectacles into things , myself into another and another into myself " ( Primacy of Perception , 168 ) . The ...
Contents
Nature and Narratives | 21 |
Wandering Wounds and Meandering Words | 51 |
Speak Daggers But Use None | 69 |
Copyright | |
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