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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 71
Page 133
... myth of the modern body - codified in its markings to reveal a worldview of separateness , as well as an older , mythic body in the figures of Queequeg , Ahab , and Moby - Dick that re- trieve a primordial cosmology as well as the ...
... myth of the modern body - codified in its markings to reveal a worldview of separateness , as well as an older , mythic body in the figures of Queequeg , Ahab , and Moby - Dick that re- trieve a primordial cosmology as well as the ...
Page 134
... myth has the capacity to do . There is a healing of a cultural wound through myth that aids us in repatterning our existence based in the home of the myth . It is , May argues , " our interior structure " ( Cry for Myth , 33 ) . I ...
... myth has the capacity to do . There is a healing of a cultural wound through myth that aids us in repatterning our existence based in the home of the myth . It is , May argues , " our interior structure " ( Cry for Myth , 33 ) . I ...
Page 242
... myths and mythic imaginings . The body is mythic in its physiology and in its psychology , something that the poet intuitively understands and gives expression to ( The Body of Myth : Mythology , Shamanic Trance , and the Sacred ...
... myths and mythic imaginings . The body is mythic in its physiology and in its psychology , something that the poet intuitively understands and gives expression to ( The Body of Myth : Mythology , Shamanic Trance , and the Sacred ...
Contents
Nature and Narratives | 21 |
Wandering Wounds and Meandering Words | 51 |
Speak Daggers But Use None | 69 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Ahab Ahab's animal appetite archetypal autobiography Baby Suggs becomes begins believe Beloved boar body's Brothers Karamazov Carl Jung Christ Confessions consciousness corpse created cultural death deep deeply Denver desire destiny disease divine Dostoevsky embodied enfleshed epic explores father feel fiction figure Flannery O'Connor flesh Gaston Bachelard gestures Hamlet healing human icon imagination incarnation Ishmael Ivan Ilych Ivan's James Hillman Jean-Jacques Rousseau journey language lives marked Mary Grace matter memory metaphor mind Moby-Dick mother mystery myth mythic narcissism narrative nature novel O'Connor observation Odysseus Oedipus one's original Parker perhaps Peter Brooks Phaecians poetic pollution Polonius Polyphemos presence psyche psychological Queequeg reflection remembered reveals ritual Romanyshyn Rousseau Ruby Ruby's sacred Sarah Ruth scar Scheria sense Sethe Sethe's sewer soul spirit story suffering suggests tattooed things tion Toni Morrison Trans vision voice white whale words wounded body woundedness writes York Zosima's