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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... 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 centre of ...
... politics of the body - a politics which involve a form of self - reflexive violence - have begun to emerge . What was at stake within this political sphere was mastery over the body , and control of its internal processes . The ...
... political context . For the body's interior may be understood as ' grotesque ' in that specialized sense associated with Bakhtin's analysis of the body.9 Conflict between interior and exterior becomes , in this analysis , the new co ...
... political ) body.24 The microcosmic explorer of the body laboured on a project the dimen- sions of which were held to be every bit as dark as the interior of the continent of the newly found ' americas . But the body's darkness , its ...
... political implications of this process of thought were immense . Hitherto , the body had always been available as a rich source of metaphors with which to describe systems of government which were held to be both organic ( and hence ...
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 |