Body Criticism

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993-08-13
Category : Design
ISBN : 0262691655

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Body Criticism by Barbara Maria Stafford Pdf

In this erudite and profusely illustrated history of perception, Barbara Stafford explores a remarkable set of body metaphors deriving from both aesthetic and medical practices that were developed during the enlightenment for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. While she focuses on these metaphors as a reflection of the changing attitudes toward the human body during the period of birth of the modern world, she also presents a strong argument for our need to recognize the occurrence of a profound revolution—a radical shift from a textbased to a visually centered culture. Stafford agues, in fact, that modern societies need to develop innovative, nonlinguistic paradigms and to train a broad public in visual aptitude.

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
ISBN : OCLC:1420118579

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Body Criticism by Barbara Maria Stafford Pdf

Author : Sabrina Strings
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479831098

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Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings Pdf

Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.

Author : Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262365680

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The Body Fantastic by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi Pdf

The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious and the fabulous to our conception of the body. He chronicles, among other curious cases, the man who ate everything (including boiled hedgehogs and mice on toast), the therapeutic powers of saliva, hair that burst into flames, and an "amphibian man" who lived under water. Drawing on clinical records, popular lore, and art, history, and literature, Gonzalez-Crussi considers the body in both real and imaginary dimensions. Myths and stories, Gonzalez-Crussi reminds us, are the symbolic expression of our aspirations and emotions. These fantastic tales of bodies come from the deepest regions of the human psyche. Ancient Greeks, for example, believed that the uterus wandered around inside a woman's body--an "animal within an animal." If a woman sniffed an unpleasant odor, the uterus would retreat. Organized "digestive excess" began with the eating and drinking contests of antiquity and continue through the hot-dog eating competitions of today. And the "libido-podalic association," connecting male sexuality and the foot, insinuated itself into mainstream medicine in the sixteenth century; meanwhile, the feet of women in some cultures were scrupulously kept from view. Gonzalez-Crussi shows that the many imaginary representations of the body are very much a part of our corporeality.

Author : Gill Plain,Susan Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139465821

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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism by Gill Plain,Susan Sellers Pdf

Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards, and analyses the work of pioneers such as Wollstonecraft and Woolf. The second section examines the rise of second-wave feminism and maps its interventions across the twentieth century. A final section examines the impact of postmodernism on feminist thought and practice. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field. It is essential reading for all students and scholars of feminist writing and literary criticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004334458

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Post-Theory, Culture, Criticism by Anonim Pdf

"Post-Theory, Culture, Criticism offers a collection of essays that provide provocative re-articulations of theory, culture and criticism. It contains distinguished and original work by a number of leading and emerging figures within cultural and critical theory and cultural studies who believe that all of the above is in urgent need of theoretical and practical exploration. In probing the feasibility and desirability of theory's re-articulation, the essays demonstrate that theory can only reinvent itself as worthwhile 'post-theory' through its own critical self-revaluation."--Jacket.

Author : Hans Driesch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351338738

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Revival: Mind and Body: A Criticism of Psychophysical Parallelism (1927) by Hans Driesch Pdf

This little book is not a text-book of psychology. It is exclusively concerned with one particular psychological problem, a problem, however, that stands at the very centre of psychology. The relations between mind and body are analysed; that is to say, the following three psychedelic problems are successively raised: What is the mind? What is the body? What are the relations between mind and body? But it is only the third problem which is extensively dealt with; the first two are only briefly defined.

Author : E. S. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521818699

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Comparative Criticism: Volume 24, Fantastic Currencies in Comparative Literature: Gothic to Postmodern by E. S. Shaffer Pdf

This new volume looks at Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media.

Author : Emily Ratajkowski
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250848932

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My Body by Emily Ratajkowski Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the author steps beyond the reach of any 'Pygmalion' and becomes a more dangerous kind of beautiful. She becomes a kind of god in her own right: an artist." —Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book Review A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women is the subject of this book. My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women’s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the gray area between consent and abuse. Nuanced, fierce, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a writer brimming with courage and intelligence.

Author : Patricia Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199291330

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Literary Theory and Criticism by Patricia Waugh Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive account of modern literary criticism, presenting the field as part of an ongoing historical and intellectual tradition. Featuring thirty-nine specially commissioned chapters from an international team of esteemed contributors, it fills a large gap in the market by combining the accessibility of single-authored selections with a wide range of critical perspectives. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One covers the key philosophical and aesthetic origins of literary theory, while Part Two discusses the foundational movements and thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century. Part Three offers introductory overviews of the most important movements and thinkers in modern literary theory, and Part Four looks at emergent trends and future directions.

Author : Martha Woodmansee,Mark Osteen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134750443

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The New Economic Criticism by Martha Woodmansee,Mark Osteen Pdf

This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. This collection brings together 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics.

Author : M. A. R. Habib
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444351569

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Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present by M. A. R. Habib Pdf

Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day An indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory Introduces the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism Provides historical context and shows the interconnections between various theories An ideal text for all students of literature and criticism

Author : Evelyn Gajowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350093232

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The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism by Evelyn Gajowski Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s that challenged the preconceptions on which traditional liberal humanism is based, including feminism, cultural materialism and new historicism. Perspectives drawn from postcolonial, queer studies and critical race studies, besides more recent critical practices including presentism, ecofeminism and cognitive ethology all receive detailed treatment. In addition to its coverage of distinct critical approaches, the handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A–Z glossary of key terms and concepts, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field and a substantial annotated bibliography.

Author : Victor N. Paananen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815303858

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British Marxist Criticism by Victor N. Paananen Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Arthur Kroker
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816679164

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Body Drift by Arthur Kroker Pdf

As exemplary representatives of a form of critical feminism, the writings of Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway offer entry into the great crises of contemporary society, politics, and culture. Butler leads readers to rethink the boundaries of the human in a time of perpetual war. Hayles turns herself into a "writing machine" in order to find a dwelling place for the digital humanities within the austere landscape of the culture of the code. Haraway is the one contemporary thinker to have begun the necessary ethical project of creating a new language of potential reconciliation among previously warring species. According to Arthur Kroker, the postmodernism of Judith Butler, the posthumanism of Katherine Hayles, and the companionism of Donna Haraway are possible pathways to the posthuman future that is captured by the specter of body drift. Body drift refers to the fact that individuals no longer inhabit a body, in any meaningful sense of the term, but rather occupy a multiplicity of bodies: gendered, sexualized, laboring, disciplined, imagined, and technologically augmented. Body drift is constituted by the blast of information culture envisioned by artists, communicated by social networking, and signified by its signs. It is lived daily by remixing, resplicing, and redesigning the codes: codes of gender, sexuality, class, ideology, and identity. The writings of Butler, Hayles, and Haraway, Kroker reveals, provide the critical vocabulary and political context for understanding the deep complexities of body drift and challenging the current emphasis on the material body.