The Body as Text
In a Perpetual Age of Non-Reason
Will be published approx. on 1. April 1996
Book
Hardback
182 pages
978-0-8204-2507-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Body as Text establishes the importance of cultural readings of the Body. Focusing on various bodies that cultures establish in their indigenous dialogues, the book moves through readings incorporated by/in classical witchcraft, Iron-age bog people of Northern Europe, and pornography.
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Person
The Author: Richard C. Poulsen received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Utah in 1976. He has published four other books: The Pure Experience of Order; Misbegotten Muses; The Mountain Man Vernacular; and The Landscape of the Mind. He has been awarded two Fulbright Lectureships - one to Denmark and one to Finland. Dr. Poulsen was Professor of English at Brigham Young University for many years and is currently Professor of English and American Literature at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.