
Somatic Criticism Project
Adam Dziadek(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 31. August 2018
Book
Hardback
226 pages
978-3-631-67428-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a general sign theory and in the medical sense as «symptomatology»). The author seeks to derive a more general principle from these two words, referring to the representation of experience in different literary texts. If we are talking about the representation of experience, we cannot, by any means, ignore the body that becomes the essential point of reference for human experience. This general principle aims at creating a matter of concept, a somatic criticism project, which is closely related to the issue of rhythm in literary texts - a rhythm understood as an intermediary between the body and the sense of the text.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
13 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-67428-4 (9783631674284)
DOI
10.3726/b14659
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Adam Dziadek is Professor of Literature at the University of Silesia in Katowice. His main research areas are the theory of literature, the history of literature and comparative literature, as well as the translation of scientific texts. He also deals with problems of editing and genetic criticism. He translated, among others, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy into Polish.
Content
Somatic criticism - Somatic writing, touching sense - Aleksander Wat - Somatic style - Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn Dycki - Sound effects - Joanna Pollakowna - Listening as a somatic experience - Edward Pasewicz - Sonnet corpus - Somatext: word, picture and rhythm