The Land Of The Hunger Artists

Author : Agustí Nieto-Galan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781009379595

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The Land of the Hunger Artists by Agustí Nieto-Galan Pdf

From the 1880s to the 1920s, hunger artists - professional fasters - lived on the fringes of public spectacle and academic experiment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as popular urban spectacle and subject of scientific study, showing how hunger artists acted as mediators between the human and the social body. Doctors, journalists, impresarios , artists, and others used them to reinforce their different philosophical views, scientific schools, political ideologies, cultural values, and professional interests. The hunger artists generated heated debates on objectivity and medical pluralism, and fierce struggles over authority, recognition, and prestige. Set on the fringes of the freak show culture of the nineteenth century and the scientific study of physiology laboratories, Nieto-Galan explores the story of the public exhibition of hunger, emaciated bodies, and their enormous impact on the public sphere of their time.

Author : Agustí Nieto-Galan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781009379588

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The Land of Hunger Artists by Agustí Nieto-Galan Pdf

The story of the exhibition of hunger, emaciated bodies and their enormous impact in the public sphere around 1900.

Author : Eliezer Diamond
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195137507

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Holy Men and Hunger Artists by Eliezer Diamond Pdf

The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. Diamond shows that rabbinic asceticism does indeed exist. This asceticism is mainly secondary, rather than primary, in that the rabbis place no value on self-denial in and of itself.

Author : Maud Ellmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Anorexia nervosa
ISBN : UOM:39015029733618

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The Hunger Artists by Maud Ellmann Pdf

How has the act of eating become a metaphor for compliance, starvation the language of protest? How does the rejection of food become the rejection of intolerable social constraints? The author unravels the answers to these questions and more as she brilliantly explores the relationship between bodily hunger and verbal expression.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781222378252

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A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka Pdf

In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of self-hatred, dedication, and spiritual yearning. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.

Author : Ana Cristina Bozzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015014052362

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The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger by Ana Cristina Bozzo Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987-04
Category : Theater
ISBN : UOM:49015003074433

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American Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780008359133

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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester Pdf

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.

Author : Robert Warnock,George Kumler Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literature
ISBN : PSU:000030332195

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Science and uncertainty the literature of the contemporary period by Robert Warnock,George Kumler Anderson Pdf

Author : Murdock Pemberton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Art patronage
ISBN : UIUC:30112118811329

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Object: Every American an Art Patron by Murdock Pemberton Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Angel-Perez,Alexandra Poulain
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015078776864

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Hunger on the Stage by Elisabeth Angel-Perez,Alexandra Poulain Pdf

In his short story â oeThe Hunger Artist, â Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a â oeprofessional fasterâ whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way through declining bodies, may be a privileged theatrical object. Hunger often signals an anchorage in socio-historical reality, and invites extreme situations on stage, articulating large-scale cataclysms (famines, the devastation of war) with personal tragedies (hunger-strikes, anorexia, etc.) in which characters experience the tenuousness of their own lives. Whether in the comic or in the tragic mode, staged hunger metaphorizes various kinds of starvation â " material greed, spiritual, emotional, sexual starvation, and even linguistic insufficiency. This volume explores the aesthetic and ethical issues raised by hunger on the stage in the English-speaking world. It investigates the paradox of the hypervisibility of the thinning body and shows how, throughout history, hunger has given shape to innovative, powerfully transgressive dramaturgies.

Author : Marthe Robert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106005158552

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Inside Writing by Marthe Robert Pdf

Author : Maud Ellmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674331079

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The Hunger Artists by Maud Ellmann Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UCAL:B3913370

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Humanitas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119140783

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf