The book and the body
About this book
One of the most exciting developments in recent literary studies bases interpretation on a new understanding of bodily aspects of text.
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.
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL18320803W
Subjects
Learning and scholarshipIntertextualityBooks and reading in literatureIntellectual lifeMedieval ManuscriptsEnglish literatureTextual CriticismBooks and readingChristian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)HistoryBody, Human, in literatureCivilization, Medieval, in literatureHuman body in literatureEnglish literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500Great britain, intellectual lifeBooks and reading, historyManuscripts