Narrative Bodies
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Narrative Bodies
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Author : D. Punday
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-06-13
Narrative Bodies written by D. Punday and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to the body raises uncomfortable questions about the historicity of basic narrative concepts like character, plot, and narration - questions that critics would often prefer to ignore. Daniel Punday argues that narrative itself is a concept constructed by modern-day critics based on assumptions about identity, desire, movement and place that depend on modern ways of thinking about corporeality.
With Bodies
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Author : Marco Caracciolo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-11
With Bodies written by Marco Caracciolo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-11 with categories.
Draws on recent cognitive and neuroscientific research and wide-ranging works from antiquity to the present to explore the embodied dimension of reading literary narrative.
Body Work
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Author : Peter Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1993
Body Work written by Peter Brooks and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The desire to know the body is a powerful dynamic of storytelling in all its forms. Peter Brooks argues that modern narrative is intent on uncovering the body in order to expose a truth that must be written in the flesh. In a book that ranges widely through literature and painting, Brooks shows how the imagination strives to bring the body into language and to write stories on the body. From Rousseau, Balzac, Mary Shelley, and Flaubert, to George Eliot, Zola, Henry James, and Marguerite Duras, from Manet and Gauguin to Mapplethorpe, writers and artists have returned in fascination to the body, the inescapable other of the spirit. Brooks's deep understanding of psychoanalysis informs his demonstration of how the "epistemophilic urge"--the desire to know-guides fictional plots and our reading of them. It is the sexual body that furnishes the building blocks of symbolization, eventually of language itself-which then takes us away from the body. Yet mind and language need to recover the body, as an other realm that is primary to their very definition. Brooks shows how and why the female body has become the field upon which the aspirations, anxieties, and contradictions of a whole society are played out. And he suggests how writers and artists have found in the woman's body the dynamic principle of their storytelling, its motor force. This major book entertains and teaches: Brooks presumes no special knowledge on the part of his readers. His account proceeds chronologically from Rousseau in the eighteenth century forward to contemporary artists and writers. Body Work gives us a set of analytical tools and ideas-primarily from psychoanalysis, narrative and film studies, and feminist theory-that enable us to read modern narrative afresh.
Body Narratives
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Author : S. Scholz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2000-01-27
Body Narratives written by S. Scholz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference.
Bodies In Pieces
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Author : Deborah A. Harter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Bodies In Pieces written by Deborah A. Harter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bodies in Pieces explores the insistent presence of the fragmented body in fantastic narrative of the nineteenth century - its characteristic beating hearts and severed hands, its breasts and feet and teeth and lost meshes of hair. In the process it uncovers a poetics of the fragment that both fundamentally defines this genre and links it to its contemporary and "other", the realist novel. Reading texts from Hoffmann to Maupassant, from Balzac and Poe to Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the author reflects on the body's production through both textual and subjective shattering, on its violation of material and discursive categories, and on its depiction of the mutilated feminine in terms of a transparently male agony. She asks how this body's pieces function to determine fantastic discourse, from what violence they are produced, to whom they belong. And she suggests that, in contradistinction to the structured and structuring unities of the realist novel, the fragmented body in fantastic narrative represents this genre's underlying fascination with all that is fragmentary and incomplete. But this study discovers in this narrative form more than just a poetics of the fragment. It discovers as well that just as the realist novel is fraught with parts that finally give the lie to its desperate efforts at achieving unity - constructing the human body itself in ways that reveal its careful patchwork of pieces - so the fragment in fantastic narrative betrays a certain anguished gesture toward its own, different vision of wholeness. Adding to her discussion the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Flaubert, the author proposes that the differing strategies of these two genres - the one pressing toward, theother away from totalization - are a complementary set of terms in a single imaginative system. In this system, fantastic narrative becomes for the realist novel far less an opposing than a reflective other, while realist discourse is discovered in all its fragmented, "fantastic" nature.
The Wounded Storyteller
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Author : Arthur W. Frank
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997-05-15
The Wounded Storyteller written by Arthur W. Frank and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-15 with Health & Fitness categories.
Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine; they are wounded storytellers, Frank argues. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering; when they turn their diseases into stories, they find healing. Drawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as on the stories of people he has met during years spent among different illness groups, Frank recounts a stirring collection of illness narratives, ranging from the well-known - Gilda Radner's battle with ovarian cancer - to the private testimonials of people with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, and disabilities. Their stories are more than accounts of personal suffering: they abound with moral choices and point to a social ethic. Frank identifies three basic narratives of illness - stories of restitution, chaos, and quest. Restitution narratives anticipate getting well and give prominence to the technology of cure. In chaos narratives, illness seems to stretch on forever, with no respite or redeeming insights. Quest narratives are about finding that illness can be transformed into a means for the ill person to become someone new. Understanding these three narrative types helps us to hear the ill, but ultimately illness stories are more. Frank presents these stories as a form of testimony: the ill person is more than a survivor; she is a witness. Schooled in a "pedagogy of suffering", the ill person reaches out to others, offering a truth about living. The truth is a starting point for a "narrative ethics", as private experiences become public voices. Wounded storytellers teach more than a new way to understand illness; they exemplify an emergingethic of postmodern times.
Body Nation And Narrative In The Americas
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Author : K. Pitt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-12-20
Body Nation And Narrative In The Americas written by K. Pitt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book contextualizes 21st century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention within a historical framework of inter-American narratives. Examining a range of sources, Pitt finds a persistent focus on the body that links contemporary practices of political terror to concerns about corporality and sovereignty.
Victims And The Postmodern Narrative Or Doing Violence To The Body
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Author : Mark Ledbetter
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
Victims And The Postmodern Narrative Or Doing Violence To The Body written by Mark Ledbetter and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Religion categories.
Victims and the Postmodern Narrative suggests that reading and writing about literature are ways to gain an ethical understanding of how we live in the world. Postmodern narrative is an important way to reveal and discuss who are society's victims, inviting the reader to become one with them. A close reading of fiction by Toni Morrison, Patrick Suskind, D.M. Thomas, Ian McEwan and J.M. Coetzee reveals a violence imposed on gender, race and the body-politic. Such violence is not new to the postmodern world, but merely reflects Western culture's religious traditions, as the author demonstrates through a reading of stories from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament.
Female Stories Female Bodies
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Author : Lidia Curti
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1998-02
Female Stories Female Bodies written by Lidia Curti and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
On women authors and women in literature
The Body Desire And Storytelling In Novels By J M Coetzee
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Author : Olfa Belgacem
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-26
The Body Desire And Storytelling In Novels By J M Coetzee written by Olfa Belgacem and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Asserting that Coetzee’s representation of the body as subject to dismemberment counters the colonial representation of the other’s body as exotic and erotically-charged, this study inspects the ambivalence pertaining to Coetzee’s embodied representation of the other and reveals the risks that come with such contrapuntal reiteration. Through the study of the narrative identity of the colonial other and her/his body’s representation, the book also unveils the author’s own authorial identity exposed through the repetitive narrative patterns and characterization choices.