The Bodies That Remain

Author : Emmy Beber
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781947447677

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The Bodies That Remain by Emmy Beber Pdf

The Bodies That Remain is a collection of bodies and absences. Through biography, experimental essay and interview, fictional manifestation, and poetic extraction, The Bodies That Remain is a collection of texts and images on the bodies of artists and writers who battled with the frustration of their own physicality and whose work reckoned with these limitations and continued beyond them. The Bodies That Remain looks back at how the identity of these bodies was shaped by the spaces around them, through the retelling of memory, through stories told by others; of how their work, processed by their body, made it possible for others to experience sensations - mourning, desire, or a nostalgia that could not belong to another, to another's body and in capturing this ability, their work confirms the body's urgency. Amongst others, The Bodies That Remain tells the story of Emily Dickinson's decay, the missing grave of Valeska Gert, the voice and sound of the body of Judee Sill, and the derailed body and its work of Jane Bowles. It questions the absent body but broken organs of JT Leroy as they find themselves scattered across texts, and also interrogates the loss of distinction of illness for Jules de Goncourt as syphilis riddled his nervous system. It retrieves the illusory body of Kathy Acker through dream and through horror, sees the morphing body of Michael Jackson in becoming all of the bodies he was asked to be, and looks toward Sylvia Plath and the language of her own body. Contributions include texts and images by: Lynne Tillman (on Jane Bowles), David Rule (on Michael Jackson), Mairead Case (on Judee Sill), Claire Potter (on the Lads of Aran), Jeremy Millar (on Emily Dickinson), Chloé Griffin (on Valeska Gert), Phoebe Blatton (on Brigid Brophy), Susanna Davies-Crook (on Sarah Kane), Travis Jeppensen (on Gary Sullivan), Karen Di Franco (on Mary Butts), Tai Shani (on Mnemesoid), Philip Hoare (on Denton Welch), Heather Phillipson (on a dead dog), Uma Breakdown (on Guage Fanfic), Linda Stuppart (on Kathy Acker), Sharon Kivland (on Jacques Lacan), Harman Bains (on Wilhelm Reich), Pil & Galia Kollectiv (JT Leroy), Kevin Breathnach (on Jules de Goncourt), and Emily LaBarge (on Sylvia Plath).

Author : Annemie Halsema,Katja Kwastek,Roel van den Oever
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048552504

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Bodies That Still Matter by Annemie Halsema,Katja Kwastek,Roel van den Oever Pdf

Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most influential (and at times controversial) thinkers in academia. Her work addresses numerous socially pertinent topics such as gender normativity, political speech, media representations of war, and the democratic power of assembling bodies. The volume Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler brings together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who apply, reflect on, and further Butler's ideas to their own research. It includes a new essay by Butler herself, from which it takes its title. Organized around four key themes in Butler's scholarship - performativity, speech, precarity, and assembly - the volume offers an excellent introduction to the contemporary relevance of Butler's thinking, a multi-perspectival approach to key topics of contemporary critical theory, and a testimony to the vibrant interdisciplinary discourses characterizing much of today's humanities' research.

Author : Lauren B. Wilcox
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Gender and I
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199384488

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Bodies of Violence by Lauren B. Wilcox Pdf

International Relations, in both theory and practice, has been increasingly concerned with a proliferation of modes of violence that use, target, and construct bodies in complex ways that challenge notions of security. The central argument of this work is that the bodies that practices of violence take as their object are deeply unnatural bodies, constituted in reference to historical political conditions as well as acting upon our world.

Author : Anne Hege Grung,Marianne Bjelland Kartzow,Anna Rebecca Solevag
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227905548

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Bodies, Borders, Believers by Anne Hege Grung,Marianne Bjelland Kartzow,Anna Rebecca Solevag Pdf

This stimulating collection of essays by prominent scholars honours Turid Karlsen Seim. Bodies, Borders, Believers brings together biblical scholars, ecumenical theologians, archaeologists, classicists, art historians, and church historians, working side by side to probe the past and its receptions in the present. The contributions relate in one way or another to Seim's broad research interests, covering such themes as gender analysis, bodily practices, and ecumenical dialogue. The editors have brought together an international group of scholars, and among the contributors many scholarly traditions, theoretical orientations, and methodological approaches are represented, making this book an interdisciplinary and border-crossing endeavour. A comprehensivebibliography of Seim's work is included.

Author : Samantha Matthews
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191514487

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Poetical Remains by Samantha Matthews Pdf

What happens to poets' genius when they die? The peculiar affinity which was felt to exist between their physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - is the subject of this original cultural study, which concentrates on poets and poetry from the Romantic to late Victorian period. Poetical Remains deals with issues such as the place of burial, the kind of monument deemed appropriate, the poet's 'last words' and last poems, the creation of memorial volumes, and the commercial boost given to a poet's reputation by 'celebrity death', focussing in each case on the powerful, complex, often unstated but ever-present connections between the poet's body and their poetic 'corpus'. As well as the works of the poets themselves, Matthews draws on contemporary biography and memoirs, family correspondence, newspaper reports, and tribute verse among other texts, and places the literature of poetic death in its social, material, and affective context: the conflict between the idealized 'country churchyard' and the secular urban cemetery, the ideal of private, familial burial as against the pressure for public ceremony, the recuperation of death-in-exile as an extension of national pride, transactions between spiritual and material, poetic and pragmatic, in a secularizing age. Some of the most poignant and darkly comic moments in nineteenth-century literary history arose around the deathbeds of poets and the events which followed their deaths. What happened to Shelley's heart, and to Thomas Hood's monument; the different fates which dictated that the first Poet Laureate appointed by Queen Victoria, Wordsworth, was buried in his family plot in Grasmere, while her second, Tennyson, was wrested from his family's grasp and interred in Westminster Abbey - these are some of the stories which Matthews tells, and which are bound up in a sustained and powerful argument about the way in which our culture deals with artists and their work on the boundary between life and death.

Author : Robyn Longhurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134656929

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Bodies by Robyn Longhurst Pdf

This is one of the first books to introduce students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces. The text includes original interview and focus group data informed by feminist theory on the body and uses case studies to illustrate the social construction of bodies. It will critically engage students in topical questions around sexuality, cultural differences and women's sub-ordination to men.

Author : Andrew T. Chamberlain,Michael Parker Pearson
Publisher : British Museum Publications Limited
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0714150088

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Earthly Remains by Andrew T. Chamberlain,Michael Parker Pearson Pdf

The preserved remains of other human beings hold a special fascination for the living. Earthly Remains explores the history and science behind such phenomena as: the bodies of Abraham Lincoln, Lenin, Eva Peron and other famous politicians, embalmed and displayed for political ends; bog bodies, including the famous Lindow Man - how and why did they meet their fate?; mummies from ancient Egypt and even earlier examples from South America; frozen corpses, such as the 5,000-year-old Tyrolean Ice Man; bodies preserved in outline form, including those of Pompeii and Sutton Hoo; and cryonics, embalming and other modern preservation techniques. Illustrated with the images of many of the cases discussed, Earthly Remains is a book that will appeal to everyone's sense of mystery in the history and origins of our ancestors.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110084477

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Authorizing the Appointment of a Commission to Remove the Bodies of Deceased Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, from Foreign Countries to the United States, and Defining Its Duties and Powers by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : Thomas E. Sheridan,Randall H. McGuire
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539475

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The Border and Its Bodies by Thomas E. Sheridan,Randall H. McGuire Pdf

The Border and Its Bodies examines the impact of migration from Central America and México to the United States on the most basic social unit possible: the human body. It explores the terrible toll migration takes on the bodies of migrants—those who cross the border and those who die along the way—and discusses the treatment of those bodies after their remains are discovered in the desert. The increasingly militarized U.S.-México border is an intensely physical place, affecting the bodies of all who encounter it. The essays in this volume explore how crossing becomes embodied in individuals, how that embodiment transcends the crossing of the line, and how it varies depending on subject positions and identity categories, especially race, class, and citizenship. Timely and wide-ranging, this book brings into focus the traumatic and real impact the border can have on those who attempt to cross it, and it offers new perspectives on the effects for rural communities and ranchers. An intimate and profoundly human look at migration, The Border and Its Bodies reminds us of the elemental fact that the border touches us all.

Author : Erin M. Goss
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611483956

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Revealing Bodies by Erin M. Goss Pdf

Revealing Bodies considers three thinkers not often read together, in order to ask a question: how is it that we claim to know the body? This book explores a question with wide-ranging stakes both for those with specialized interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture and with a broader interest in bodily representation.

Author : Ryan Donovan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Broadway
ISBN : 9780197551073

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Broadway Bodies by Ryan Donovan Pdf

"The Broadway Body I lied about my height on my résumé the entire time I was a dancer, though in truth I don't think the extra inch ever actually made a difference. In the US, 5'6" still reads as short for a man no matter how you slice it. The reason for my deception was that height was often the reason I was disqualified: choreographers often wanted taller male dancers for the ensemble and listed a minimum height requirement (often 5'11" and up) in the casting breakdown. Being disqualified before I could even set foot in the audition because I possessed an unchangeable physical characteristic that often made me unemployable in the industry. I was learning an object lesson in Broadway's body politics-and, of course, had I not been a white cisgender nondisabled man, the barriers to employment would have been compounded even further. I wasn't alone in feeling caught in a catch-22. Not being cast because of your appearance, or "type" in industry lingo, is casting's status quo. The casting process openly discriminates based upon appearance. This truism even made its way into a song cut from A Chorus Line (1975) called "Broadway Boogie Woogie," which comically lists all of the reasons one might not be cast: "I'm much too tall, much too short, much too thin/Much too fat, much too young for the role/I sing too high, sing too low, sing too loud." Funny Girl (1964) put it even more bluntly: "If a Girl Isn't Pretty/Like a Miss Atlantic City/She should dump the stage/And try another route"--

Author : K. Boehm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137283658

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Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by K. Boehm Pdf

This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.

Author : Bianca Maria Pirani,Ivan Varga
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761849988

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Acting Bodies and Social Networks by Bianca Maria Pirani,Ivan Varga Pdf

This book analyzes the complex interactions of body, mind and microelectronic technologies. Internationally renowned scholars look into the nature of the mind - a combination of thought, perception, emotion, will and imagination - as well as the ever-increasing impact and complexity of microelectronic technologies.

Author : George C. Ashby,Aubrey M. Cary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Aerodynamics, Hypersonic
ISBN : UIUC:30112106744045

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A Parametric Study of the Aerodynamic Characteristics of Nose-cylinder-flare Bodies at a Mach Number of 6.0 by George C. Ashby,Aubrey M. Cary Pdf

Author : John Hassard,Ruth Holliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134644179

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Contested Bodies by John Hassard,Ruth Holliday Pdf

The body occupies a prime position in contemporary theoretical work, yet still there is no consensus on exactly what it is and what constitutes it. Contested Bodies brings together a number of different accounts and perspectives on the body, drawing out some of the key connections and disjunctures from this most contested of topics. This volume features fresh and fascinating contributions from some of the leading thinkers and upcoming theorists in the field. Themes that run through the work include: * the place of the body in theory * the notion of labour in the production of bodies * the transformative potential of bodies on spaces. Grounded in real life experience and examples, this key text will be a valuable reference for undergraduates of sociology and gender studies.