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The wounded body : remembering the markings of flesh
- Title
- The wounded body : remembering the markings of flesh / Dennis Patrick Slattery.
- Author
- Slattery, Dennis Patrick, 1944-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 293 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison.
- Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
- Subject
- Human body in literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Mimesis in literature
- Psychoanalysis
- Human Body
- Psychoanalysis
- Literature
- psychoanalysis
- Human body in literature
- Mimesis in literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Körper Motiv
- Verletzung
- Literatur
- Geschichte
- Körper
- Metapher
- Kultur
- Psychologie
- Corps humain > Dans la littérature
- Psychanalyse et littérature
- Représentation (littérature)
- Körper (Motiv)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The wounded body: remembering the markings of flesh -- Nature and narratives: Feeding the fictions of the body in Homer's Odyssey -- Wandering wounds and meandering words: The tragic body of memory in Oedipus Rex -- Speak daggers but use none: Denmark's wounded body -- Rousseau's confessions: Autobiography, body cleansing, and the invention of the Paris sewer system -- Corrupting corpse versus reasoned abstraction: The play of evil in The Brothers Karamazov -- The white whale and the afflicted body of myth -- Rebellious things and deepening wounds in the life of Ivan Ilych -- Wounds and tattoos: Marking the mystery in Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation" and "Parker's back" -- The narrative body and the incarnate word in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Concluding reflections.
- ISBN
- 0791443817
- 9780791443811
- 0791443825
- 9780791443828
- LCCN
- 98055986
- OCLC
- ocm40602705
- 40602705
- SCSB-963288
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library