Book and the Body
Published on 1. December 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-268-00700-3 (ISBN)
Description
One of the most exciting developments in recent literary studies bases interpretation on a new understanding of bodily aspects of text. Contributors Mary Carruthers, Michael Camille, Seth Lerer, and Carolyn Dinshaw bring various disciplinary perspectives to this intriguing subject.
The method employed here views the body as a text to be read. Though the approaches of these essays are widely varied, three concerns figure and refigure themselves throughout the book: the gendered body and the copied book as locus of pain, pleasure, and desire. They will be of immense interest to medievalists and other scholars of language, philosophy, history, art history, and gender studies.
Frese and O'Keeffe explore the liminal areas between the book and the body from contemporary perspectives. Though the approaches of these essays are widely varied, three concerns figure throughout the book: the gendered body and the copied book as locus of pain, pleasure, and desire.
The method employed here views the body as a text to be read. Though the approaches of these essays are widely varied, three concerns figure and refigure themselves throughout the book: the gendered body and the copied book as locus of pain, pleasure, and desire. They will be of immense interest to medievalists and other scholars of language, philosophy, history, art history, and gender studies.
Frese and O'Keeffe explore the liminal areas between the book and the body from contemporary perspectives. Though the approaches of these essays are widely varied, three concerns figure throughout the book: the gendered body and the copied book as locus of pain, pleasure, and desire.
Reviews / Votes
"Four learned and distinguished medievalists pursue the metaphor of the body as book in densely argued essays." -Ecclesiastical HistoryMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Notre Dame IN
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
247 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-268-00700-3 (9780268007003)
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Persons
Dolores Warwick Frese is Professor Emeritus of English and Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1991), and coeditor of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation (1974).
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe is the Clyde and Evelyn Slusser Chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley, is the editor of Old English Shorter Poems: Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England (1994), and author of Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse (1990)
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe is the Clyde and Evelyn Slusser Chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley, is the editor of Old English Shorter Poems: Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England (1994), and author of Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse (1990)