Bodies Of The Text

Author : Ellen W. Goellner,Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813521270

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Bodies of the Text by Ellen W. Goellner,Jacqueline Shea Murphy Pdf

Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual. Bodies of the Text is the first book-length study of the interconnections between the two arts and the body of writing about them. The essays, by scholar-critics of dance and literature, explore dances actual and fictional to offer powerful new insights into issues of gender, race, ethnicity, popular culture, feminist aesthetics, historical "embodiment," identity politics, and narrativity. The general introduction traces the genealogy of dance studies in the academy to suggest why critical and theoretical attention to dance--and dance's challenges to writing--is both compelling and overdue. A milestone in interdisciplinary studies, Bodies of the Text opens both its fields to new inquiry, new theoretical precision, and to new readers and writers.

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199794010

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Dance as Text by Mark Franko Pdf

This is a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, it brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in literature. It studies the formal choreographic apparatus that characterises late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle and how its changing aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the nobles who devised et performed court ballets.

Author : Amelia Jones,Andrew Stephenson Nfa,Andrew Stephenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134655939

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Performing the Body/Performing the Text by Amelia Jones,Andrew Stephenson Nfa,Andrew Stephenson Pdf

This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art.

Author : M. Sawicki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401139793

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Body, Text, and Science by M. Sawicki Pdf

What is "scientific" about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That account of the essence of science comes from Edith Stein, who as HusserI's assistant 1916-1918 labored in vain to bring his massive Ideen to publication, and then went on to propose her own solution to the problem of finding a unified foundation for the social and physical sciences. Stein argued that human bodily life itself affords direct access to the interplay of natural causality, cultural motivation, and personal initiative in history and technology. She developed this line of approach to the sciences in her early scholarly publications, which too soon were overshadowed by her religious lectures and writings, and eventually were obscured by National Socialism's ideological attack on philosophies of empathy. Today, as her church prepares to declare Stein a saint, her secular philosophical achievements deserve another look.

Author : Veronica Kelly,Dorothea von Mücke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766388

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Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century by Veronica Kelly,Dorothea von Mücke Pdf

Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers. In making clear that the deployment of the body varies tremendously depending on what is meant by the 'human body', the essays draw on popular literature, poetics and aesthetics, garden architecture, physiognomy, beauty manuals, pornography and philosophy, as well as on canonical works in the genres of the novel and the drama.

Author : Richard C. Poulsen
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037492793

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The Body as Text by Richard C. Poulsen Pdf

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.

Author : David Callahan,Anthony Barker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030251895

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Body and Text: Cultural Transformations in New Media Environments by David Callahan,Anthony Barker Pdf

This book presents a collection of academic essays that take a fresh look at content and body transformation in the new media, highlighting how old hierarchies and canons of analysis must be revised. The movement of narratives and characterisations across forms, conventionally understood as adaptation, has commonly involved high-status classical forms (drama, epic, novel) being transformed into recorded and broadcast media (film, radio and television), or from the older recorded media to the newer ones. The advent of convergent digital platforms has further transformed hierarchies, and the formation of global conglomerates has created the commercial conditions for ever more lucrative exchanges between different media. Now source texts can move in any direction and take up any configuration, as emerging interacting fan bases drive innovation and new creative and commercial possibilities are deployed. Moreover, transformation may be not just a technology-driven creative practice and response, but at the very centre of the thematic worlds developed in those forms of story-telling which are currently popular: television series, video games, films and novels. The magic transformation of “your” money into “their” money is paralleled in contemporary media and culture by the centrality of transformation of one product to another as a media industry practice, as well as the transformation of bodies as a major theme both in the ensuing media products and in people’s identity practices in daily life.

Author : Anne Cranny-Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:875560244

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The Body in the Text by Anne Cranny-Francis Pdf

Author : Marion Holmes Katz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791488577

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Body of Text by Marion Holmes Katz Pdf

Reconstructs the formative debates concerning ritual purity in Islamic law and practice.

Author : David Ellingsen,Michael V. Smith
Publisher : Bookthug
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1897388284

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Body of Text by David Ellingsen,Michael V. Smith Pdf

Body of Text is a collection of concrete poems made by marrying poetry with body-based performance art and documentary photography. Dressed in a full black body-suit, Michael V. Smith is photographed by David Ellingsen in hundreds of poses which resemble Greco-Roman letters, Asian characters, hieroglyphs, or Rorschach inkblots. These are then arranged in book form, to a maximum of three images per page. In the same spirit of ï¿1/2moving beyond language' as heard in the sound poetry of Christian Bï¿1/2k, the poems in Body of Text occupy a liminal space between poetry and visual art. The body is made word, is made ï¿1/2site, ' ï¿1/2object' and ï¿1/2subject.' The body is symbol.

Author : David Crownfield
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 079141129X

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Body/Text in Julia Kristeva by David Crownfield Pdf

Julia Kristeva works at a crucial intersection of contemporary disciplines: psychoanalysis, linguistics, semiotics, literary criticism, feminism, postmodern philosophy, and religious studies. This volume examines this rich body of work and the ways in which its interdisciplinary style gives insight into problems in understanding religion. Special attention is given to two related themes: the understanding of woman in relation to religion and the role of mother (especially of mother's body) in the formation of self and of a religious discourse. Issues recurrent in the essays include the problem of ethics; the relation between discourse and the life of the body; the formation and sublimation of narcissism; the pre-Oedipal function of the father; the functions of fantasy, imagination, and art; the relation of religion to the negation of woman; and the possibility of positive and playful religion. The themes of the relation between the symbolic structures of language and a pre-symbolic semiotics of the infant body, of the split and decentered subject, and of the opposition between desire and Jouissance (ecstatic enjoyment) participate in organizing the discussion. Abjection and sacrifice in religion, the dynamics of Christian love and faith, the relation between the doctrine of the Virgin Mary and the experience of motherhood, and the question of feminism and its sometimes quasi-religious forms are also thematic.

Author : Elissa Washuta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597099694

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My Body is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta Pdf

In My Body Is a Book of Rules, Elissa Washuta corrals the synaptic gymnastics of her teeming bipolar brain, interweaving pop culture with neurobiology and memories of sexual trauma to tell the story of her fight to calm her aching mind and slip beyond the tormenting cycles of memory.

Author : Angela Zito
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0226987299

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Of Body and Brush by Angela Zito Pdf

The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of 18th-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. OF BODY AND BRUSH shows how ritualizing power was produced jointly by the throne and the official literati who dictated the prescriptions. Illustrated.

Author : Jennifer Down
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925774405

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Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down Pdf

Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman’s turbulent life

Author : Brynn Wein Shiovitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476671895

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The Body, the Dance and the Text by Brynn Wein Shiovitz Pdf

This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.