The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance CultureAn outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. |
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... discourses . Peter Stallybrass ( following Bakhtin ) has pointed out the ways in which , in the Renaissance , women were the subject of ' constant surveillance ' , since the female body seemed , in some way , ' naturally grot- esque ...
... discourse . But it was not always so . What we consider to be primarily the focus of medical attention - the accounts of physicians , surgeons , anatomists , physiologists , biologists - has , in other epochs , been entertained under ...
... discourses of knowledge seemed to flow into one another.30 But knowledge of the body , despite Donne's portrayal of an easy erotic triumph , was in reality hard to come by . No matter how diligently the search of this new continent was ...
... discourse . Both those regimes are with us still , and they structure our everyday experience of our own bodies . The traditional understanding of the body - interior – a region of fear which belongs to the Medusa - exists uneasily with ...
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Contents
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THE BODY IN THE THEATRE OF DESIRE | 39 |
INSIDE | 54 |
SACRED ANATOMY AND THE ORDER OF REPRESENTATION | 85 |
THE UNCANNY BODY | 141 |
DISSECTING PEOPLE | 183 |
ROYAL SCIENCE | 230 |
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The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday Limited preview - 1995 |
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The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday No preview available - 1995 |