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The controversial women's body : [images and representations in literature and art] / [edited by] Vita Fortunati, Annamaria Lamarra, Eleonora Federici.

Title
The controversial women's body : [images and representations in literature and art] / [edited by] Vita Fortunati, Annamaria Lamarra, Eleonora Federici.
Publication
Bologna : Bononia University Press : Università degli studi di Bologna, c2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Fortunati, Vita
  • Lamarra, Annamaria
  • Federici, Eleonora
Description
278 p., [8] col. leaves of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Manuali
Uniform Title
Manuali (Bononia University Press)
Subject
  • Body image
  • Women in literature
  • Women in art
  • Body Image
Note
  • Subtitle from p. [1] of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Bathsheba or the interior Bible / Hélène Cixous -- The body as a texture and the geometry of passions: the new feminine episteme during Baroque times and the early Enlightenment / Annamaria Lamarra -- Body and dress: female modesty and coquetry in the eighteenth century / Paola Spinozzi -- Death and the maiden: Cindy Sherman's untitled film stills / Jon Kear, Monica Turci -- Memory and aging: a revaluation of the crone in women's literature / Vita Fortunati -- Fragile bodies and angrey poems: Elizabeth Smart and the aged muse / Rita Monticelli -- "A place without pity": images of the body in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl / Raffaella Baccolini -- The Gothic vision of the body in Joyce Carol Oates's stories / Gabriella Morisco -- The Obscure body of the 'wise queen' in the narrative of Marina Warner / Daniela Corona.
ISBN
8873950132
OCLC
  • 56701990
  • SCSB-12346588
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library