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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... poetry , their plays , their rituals of justice , their art , and their buildings . By concen- trating on the literature of the period , I hope to show how this ' culture of dissection ' reached down , in England , to the imaginative ...
... poetry , art , and science , in the period . Chapter 6 is concerned with the fundamental reordering of knowledge under the pressure of the Cartesian analysis of corporeality , and the ways in which that analysis seemed to be ...
... poetry , politics , the family , and the state were all potential subjects for division . The pattern of all these different forms of division was derived from the human body . It is for this reason that the body must lie at the very ...
... poetry , and the religious meditations of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries . But looming over all these different cultural spaces and artifacts is a long shadow , which it is the task of this account , if not to dispel , then ...
... poetic theory , orders the body , the world , and the heavens into a pattern of replication , in which each component ... poetry.20 Within this world the body lay entangled within a web of enclosing patterns of repetition . During this ...
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 |
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday Limited preview - 2013 |
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday No preview available - 1995 |