Strange Bodies

Author : Marcel Theroux
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571279814

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Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux Pdf

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive. Yet nothing can make him change his story. From the secure unit of a notorious psychiatric hospital, he begins to tell his tale: an account of attempted forgery that draws the reader towards an extraordinary truth - a metaphysical conspiracy that lies on the other side of madness and death. Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.

Author : Tom de Freston
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783789900

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Strange Bodies by Tom de Freston Pdf

"a book full of love that makes you see what really matters, both in art and life. Clever, tender, completely compelling" - Ella Risbridger In 2020, artist Tom de Freston and his novelist wife Kiran Millwood Hargrave discovered they were expecting twins. But Kiran miscarried, and thus began a long journey to parenthood that saw the loss of six more pregnancies. De Freston began exploring his experience of the losses in his artwork, searching for a way to make sense of his grief and of his wife's. He finds representations of his feelings towards Kiran in Ovid's myth of Orpheus, who, in turning back to gaze upon Eurydice, loses her to the Underworld; a story which captures the longing for closeness within a couple, and the intense pain in the distance between them. His search for understanding leads him to artists and artworks from Titian and Francis Bacon to Braca Ettinger and Gerhard Richter. And as the miscarriages mounted and de Freston became ever more aware of the precarious bodily experience that is pregnancy, he excavates the erotic charge of the male gaze, its yearning for connection, and the desires and boundaries that exist between lovers, and between painter and painting. Addressed directly to De Freston's wife Kiran, Strange Bodies is an intimate, authentic, and powerfully moving account of a loving relationship that pulses with wonder and insight.

Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634405270

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Strange Bodies by Joanne Mattern Pdf

Whether it's growing new body parts or shedding body parts for defense—some of Earth's amazing animals have super-strange bodies that are almost beyond belief.

Author : Alison Stewart
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Human beings in art
ISBN : 9781609621070

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Strange Bodies by Alison Stewart Pdf

Catalogue for the Sheldon Museum of Art's exhibition "Strange Bodies: Hybrid, Text, and the Human Form," selected and curated by Professor Alison Stewart's "History of Prints: New Media of the Renaissance" class during the fall semester of 2016 in the School of Art, Art History, & Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Each of the eleven prints offers a different understanding or take on the body. Some are grounded in the physical and social aspects of humanity, while others present the body as a site for fantastic imagination and performance. Still others reference the printed page as a "body." Whether fish, fowl, or human, the body as seen in these prints continues to intrigue us across the centuries and show that even though times change, people and their concerns do not. With contributions from John-David Richardson, Grant Potter, Grace Short, Taylor Wismer, Stephanie Wright, Claire Kilgore, Nikita Lenzo, Bryon Hartley, Ian Karss, Danley Walkington, and Taylor Stobbe.

Author : Sarah Gleeson-White
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817312671

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Strange Bodies by Sarah Gleeson-White Pdf

This study adapts Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque, as well as gender and psychoanalytic theory, to the major works of the southern writer Carson McCullers. The author argues that McCullers' work has too often suffered under the pall of narrow gothic interpretations.

Author : Elizabeth Grosz,Elspeth Probyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134859702

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Sexy Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz,Elspeth Probyn Pdf

Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores what runs underneath and within all sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally weird and strange about all bodies, all carnalities. Looking at a pleasurable variety of cultural forms and texts, the contributors consider the particular charms of girls and horses, from National Velvet to Marnie; discuss figures of the lesbian body from vampires to tribades to tomboys; uncover 'virtual' lesbians in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson; track desire in the music of legendary Blues singers; and investigate the ever-scrutinised and celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection includes two important pieces of fiction by Mary Fallon and Nicole Brossard. Sexy Bodies makes new connections between and amongst bodies, cruising the borders of the obscene, the pleasurable, the desirable and the hitherto unspoken rethinking sexuality anew as deeply and strangely sexy.

Author : Lesley A. Sharp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520247864

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Strange Harvest by Lesley A. Sharp Pdf

Illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. This ethnographic study explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning.

Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135120115

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Strange Encounters by Sara Ahmed Pdf

Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism. A diverse range of texts are analyzed which produce the figure of 'the stranger', showing that it has alternatively been expelled as the origin of danger - such as in neighbourhood watch, or celebrated as the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. The author argues that both of these standpoints are problematic as they involve 'stranger fetishism'; they assume that the stranger 'has a life of its own'.

Author : Marcel Theroux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0571279805

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Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux Pdf

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive.Yet nothing can make him change his story.From the secure unit of a notorious psychiatric hospital, he begins to tell his tale: an account of attempted forgery that draws the reader towards an extraordinary truth - a metaphysical conspiracy that lies on the other side of madness and death.Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.

Author : Alfred Poulet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Diagnosis, Surgical
ISBN : UCAL:B4210428

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A Treatise on Foreign Bodies in Surgical Practice by Alfred Poulet Pdf

Author : Jenny Slatman
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048523146

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Our strange body by Jenny Slatman Pdf

The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate radical physical changes.

Author : Donna Weir
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781312178359

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Strange Body HardCopy by Donna Weir Pdf

Memoir written from a mother to her children on her struggles with autoimmune diseases. True Story filled with articles and information on how to keep from developing an autoimmune disease. Links to autoimmune disease. Excellent book describing all facets of autoimmune diseases.

Author : Olivia Laing
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780393608786

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Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing Pdf

"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

Author : Sandra Hempel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cholera
ISBN : 0520250494

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The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump by Sandra Hempel Pdf

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Author : Mary Roach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393324822

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Pdf

A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.