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Impolitic Corpses

Author : Paul Johnston
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448303397
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Impolitic Corpses written by Paul Johnston and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quint Dalrymple investigates the strange disappearance of the Lord of the Isles in this gripping dystopian thriller. November, 2038. Scotland has been reunified and Edinburgh's thirty-year experiment with supposedly benevolent totalitarianism is over. But there's still plenty of work for ex-investigator Quint Dalrymple, who's looking into an attempted strangling in Leith. A young man has been attacked by an assailant wearing a bizarre tree-fish costume. Before Quint can make headway, he is asked by the head of government to look into the strange disappearance of the Lord of the Isles. How could Angus Macdonald, leader of the opposition, have vanished from inside his locked bedroom while his valet was sitting outside? And why has a severed finger been hidden in the room? When a body is discovered, arranged in a disturbingly macabre pose, it becomes clear the two cases are linked. As Quint delves further, he is drawn into a complex web of deception whose threads lead far back into his past ...

Impolitic Bodies

Author : Sheila Delany
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355083
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Impolitic Bodies written by Sheila Delany and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book explores the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, an ardent Yorkist on the eve of the "Wars of the Roses" and a gifted poet. Sheila Delany focuses on a manuscript written in 1447, the "Legend of Holy Women." Narrating the lives and ordeals of thirteen heroic and powerful saints, this was the first all-female legendary in English, much of it commissioned by wealthy women patrons in the vicinity of Clare Priory, Suffolk, where Bokenham lived. Delany structures her book around the image of the human body. First is the corpus of textual traditions within which Bokenham wrote: above all, the work of his two competing masters, St. Augustine and Geoffrey Chaucer. Next comes the female body and its parts as represented in hagiography, with Bokenham's distinctive treatment of the body and the corporeal semiotic of his own legendary. Finally, the image of the body politic allows Delany to examine the relation of Bokenham's work to contemporary political life. She analyzes both the legendary and the friar's translation of a panegyric by the late-classical poet Claudian. The poetry is richly historized by Delany's reading of it in the context of succession crises, war, and the connection of women to political power during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Ovid and the Renaissance Body

Author : Goran V. Stanivukovic
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802035158
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Ovid and the Renaissance Body written by Goran V. Stanivukovic and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers' reworking of Ovid's texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.

Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

Author : Bryan S Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136903313
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Body Studies written by Bryan S Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics – have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants, racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders, religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise these different perspectives. In addition, this Handbook explores various epistemological approaches to the basic question: what is a body? It also offers a strongly themed range of chapters on empirical topics that are organized around religion, medicine, gender, technology and consumption. It also contributes to the debate over the globalization of the body: how have military technology, modern medicine, sport and consumption led to this contemporary obsession with matters corporeal? The Handbook’s clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical sociology, gender studies, sports studies, disability studies, social gerontology, or the sociology of religion. It will serve to consolidate the new field of body studies.

The Unmasking of Drama

Author : Jonathan Baldo
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814325988
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book The Unmasking of Drama written by Jonathan Baldo and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hamlet to Coriolanus and Timon of Athens, Shakespeare's tragedies constitute the most strenuous attempts within English Renaissance tragedy to unmask its representational practices and to penetrate its own ordering principles. Baldo evaluates the theater's economical means of representation, its heavy reliance on the authority of generalizing, and its assumption of a translatability between visual and verbal signs.

Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389

Author : Dawn Marie Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135860033
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389 written by Dawn Marie Hayes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe investigates the medieval understanding of sacred place, arguing for the centrality of bodies and bodily metaphors to the establishment, function, use, and power of medieval churches. Questioning the traditional division of sacred and profane jurisdictions, this book identifies the need to consider non-devotional uses of churches in the Middle Ages. Dawn Marie Hayes examines idealized visions of medieval sacred places in contrast with the mundane and profane uses of these buildings. She argues that by the later Middle Ages-as loyalties were torn by emerging political, economic, and social groups-the Church suffered a loss of security that was reflected in the uses of sacred spaces, which became more restricted as identities shifted and Europeans ordered the ambiguity of the medieval world.

Decapitation and Disgorgement. The Female Body's Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry

Author : Melanie A Hanson
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838256050
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Decapitation and Disgorgement. The Female Body's Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry written by Melanie A Hanson and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the ideas of French feminist Hélène Cixous to bear on a number of Early Modern English texts. The female characters of Mariam from Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, Lavinia from William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus as well as John Milton’s Eve in Paradise Lost and the poetic voice of Isabella Whitney are investigated through the application of Cixous’s theories of figurative decapitation and disgorgement. The author examines the creation of a unique discourse through the blending of what is stereotypically referred to as “female text” with “male discourse,” which results in what Cixous would call “bisexual discourse.”

Textual Bodies

Author : Lori Hope Lefkovitz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410360
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Textual Bodies written by Lori Hope Lefkovitz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on the place and treatment of the human body in the Western textual tradition. The work serves the double purpose of providing new, original, and provocative readings of familiar texts by applying the latest innovations in theory to specific works. Topics range from Sappho's fragments through cross-dressing in medieval romance to mutilation in Kathy Acker's Great Expectations. Together the essays illustrate changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.

The English Execution Narrative, 1200–1700

Author : Katherine Royer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131731977X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The English Execution Narrative, 1200–1700 written by Katherine Royer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population at large. She argues that what began as a show of retribution and revenge became a ceremonial portrayal of redemption as the political, religious and cultural landscape of England evolved.

Defying "The Plan"

Author : Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253062527
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Defying "The Plan" by : Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe

Download or read book Defying "The Plan" written by Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living under settler colonialism and patriarchal oppressions, Palestinian women in Israel are expected to operate even the most intimate aspects of their lives according to what some call "The Plan," which dictates everything from clothing, marriage, religion, and sex to how children are born and raised. In Defying "The Plan," Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe draws from a series of moving interviews to reveal that despite various forms of intertwined oppressions by both the Israeli state and Palestinian society, Palestinian women show defiance by the quotidian choices they make in their own intimate lives under occupation, which, Zinngrebe argues, cannot be perceived as a mere corollary but constitute a pivotal and contested terrain of the struggle between settler and colonized. Defying "The Plan" explores such issues as the segregation of sexual education in Palestine; the politics of dress, menstruation, and tattoos; and the roles of class, feminism, and race. Importantly, she highlights the intersectional experiences of women typically excluded from existing accounts, such as Black Palestinian women, women with disabilities, unmarried and divorced women, Bedouin women, and LGBTQI women. The stories gathered in Defying "The Plan" trace and unpack settler colonial power at the level of the intimate and native women's various practices of defiance.

A Centre of Wonders

Author : Janet Moore Lindman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501717634
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Centre of Wonders written by Janet Moore Lindman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery. The first book devoted solely to the history and theory of the body in early American cultural studies brings together authors representing diverse academic disciplines.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources—including itinerant ministers' journals, Revolutionary tracts and broadsides, advice manuals, and household inventories—they approach the theoretical analysis of the body in exciting new ways. A Centre of Wonders covers such varied topics as dance and movement among Native Americans; invading witch bodies in architecture and household spaces; rituals of baptism, conversion, and church discipline; eighteenth-century women's journaling; and the body as a rhetorical device in the language of diplomacy.

Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts

Author : J. Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137037415
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts written by J. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today.

New Medieval Literatures

Author : Wendy Scase
Publisher : New Medieval Literatures
ISBN 13 : 9780198187387
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book New Medieval Literatures written by Wendy Scase and published by New Medieval Literatures. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.

Medieval Women's Writing

Author : Diane Watt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074565763X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Women's Writing written by Diane Watt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham. Medieval Women's Writing addresses these key questions: Who were the first women authors in the English canon? What do we mean by women's writing in the Middle Ages? What do we mean by authorship? How can studying medieval writing contribute to our understanding of women's literary history? Diane Watt argues that female patrons, audiences, readers, and even subjects contributed to the production of texts and their meanings, whether written by men or women. Only an understanding of textual production as collaborative enables us to grasp fully women's engagement with literary culture. This radical rethinking of early womens literary history has major implications for all scholars working on medieval literature, on ideas of authorship, and on women's writing in later periods. The book will become standard reading for all students of these debates.

Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints

Author : Theresa Coletti
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812238001
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints written by Theresa Coletti and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A broad and deep analysis of Mary Magdalene's prominence through overlapping discourses of late medieval English culture. . . . An elegantly written and valuable resource on theater, gender, and religion."—Baylor Journal of Theater and Performance

Heads Will Roll

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004222286
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Heads Will Roll written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decapitation motif recurs in nearly all medieval and early modern genres, from saints' lives and epics to comedies and romances, yet decollation is often little regarded, save as a marker of humanity (that is, as the moment mortality exits) or inhumanity (that is, as the moment the supernatural enters). However, as a seat of reason, wisdom, and even the soul, the head has long been afforded a special place in the body politic, even when separated from its body proper. Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring "roles/rolls" of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination. Contributors are Nicola Masciandaro, Mark Faulkner, Jay Paul Gates, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Dwayne Coleman, Mary Leech, Tina Boyer, Renée Ward, Andrew Fleck, Thomas Herron, Thea Cervone, and Asa Simon Mittman. Preface by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.

Writing Religious Women

Author : Christiania Whitehead
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802084033
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Writing Religious Women written by Christiania Whitehead and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of commissioned essays explores women's vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints' lives to visionary literature. Employing a historicist methodology, the essays are sited at the intersection of two discursive fields: female spiritual practice and female textual practice. The contributors are primarily interested in the relation of women to religious books, as writers, receivers, and as objects of representation. They focus on historical approaches to the question of women's spirituality, and generically unrestricted examinations of issues of female literacy, book ownership, and reading practice. The essays are grouped under four main themes: the influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety, Carthusian links with female spirituality, the representation of femininity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English religious poetry, and veneration, performance and delusion in the Book of Margery Kempe.