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Signifying Bodies
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Author : G. Thomas Couser
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2009-10-22
Signifying Bodies written by G. Thomas Couser and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?
The Signifying Body
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Author : Penelope Ingram
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Signifying Body written by Penelope Ingram and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
How do we live ethically? What role do sex and race play in living or being ethically? Can ethics lead to ontology? Can literature play a role in ethical being? Drawing extensively on the work of Luce Irigaray, Frantz Fanon, and Martin Heidegger, Penelope Ingram argues that ethical questions must be understood in light of ontological ones. It is only when sexual and racial difference are viewed at an ontological level that ethics is truly possible. Central to the connection between ontology and ethics is the role of language. Ingram revisits the relationship between representation and matter in order to advance a theory of material signification. She examines a number of twentieth-century film and literary texts, including Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, to demonstrate that material signification, rather than representation, is crucial to our experience of living authentically and achieving an ethical relation with the Other. By attending closely to Heidegger's, Irigaray's, and Fanon's positions on language, this original work argues that the literary text is indispensable to a "revealing" of the relationship between ontology and ethics, and through it, the reader can experience a state of "authentic Being ethically."
Brain Mind And The Signifying Body
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Author : Paul J. Thibault
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-11-17
Brain Mind And The Signifying Body written by Paul J. Thibault and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This cutting-edge study of linguistic theory by one of the world's leading authors in the field of semiotics will be of interest to academics and postgraduates researching applied linguistics and advanced semiotics. In his foreword M. A. K. Halliday explains the importance of Paul J. Thibault's work to linguistics. Book jacket.
The Social And Political Body
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Author : Theodore R. Schatzki
language : en
Publisher: Guilford Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
The Social And Political Body written by Theodore R. Schatzki and has been published by Guilford Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Beginning with the provocative premise that the body is the anchor of the social order, this book delves into the multidimensional relationship between sociopolitical bodies and human bodies. It explores the way that prevailing economic and political institutions affect our experience of our physical selves and, in turn, the ways that our bodily senses, energies, activities and desires reinforce or challenge the status quo.
Signifying Bodies
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Author : Ann Diego
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Signifying Bodies written by Ann Diego and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Human Rights And The Body
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Author : Dr Annabelle Mooney
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-09-28
Human Rights And The Body written by Dr Annabelle Mooney and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-28 with Political Science categories.
Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of human rights, their very existence is threatened. While there has been consideration of the discourses of human rights and the way in which the body is written upon, research in linguistics has not yet been fully brought to bear on either human rights or the body. Drawing on legal concepts and aspects of the law of human rights, Mooney aims to provide a universally defensible set of human rights and a foundation, or rather a frame, for them. She argues that the proper frames for human rights are firstly the human body, seen as an index reliant on the natural world, secondly the globe and finally, language. These three frames generate rights to food, water, sleep and shelter, environmental protection and a right against dehumanization. This book is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of human rights and semiotics of law.
Signifying Bodies Microform Marvels Negros And The Production Of Race In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Diego, Ann
language : en
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
Release Date : 1999
Signifying Bodies Microform Marvels Negros And The Production Of Race In The Eighteenth Century written by Diego, Ann and has been published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
This dissertation provides a new account of the history and significance of "race" in modern European thought. "Signifying Bodies" refers to metaphors that take the body as a signifier of other meanings and to the allegorical processes by which the body, itself, is made to signify. "Marvels," "Negros" and "Race" refer to metaphors which I examine, respectively, in classical literature, in English voyage accounts on West Africa (1555--1745), and in Aphra Behn's novella, Oroonoko. The "marvel" and the "Negro" share a metaphorical logic that, making form the visual correlate of content, turned the body into the signifier of a set of historically specific, cultural propositions. Tracing a genealogy of these figures, I examine the cultural performativity of signifying bodies within radically different epistemological and political contexts to query the assimilation of racial production to a telos of the always already "other." Against the idea that early modern voyagers drew on the fabulous bodies in classical literature as unchanging topoi to name the "savage other," I demonstrate that the marvel was a complex metaphor read within particular tropological systems--Nature or God--that defined "Man," and deployed with diverse, often inclusive, meanings in a rhetoric that was historically conditioned. Only by situating the neologism "Negro" within the logic of a Plinean taxonomy of marvels, did early modern writers develop morphological categories, especially colour, into a binary of self and other, defined corporeally and "ontologized" in the name of political relations. Thus figured, the "Negro" became the nexus for a wealth of associations making physical difference coincide with political-economic considerations. This rhetorical production established the conditions under which race emerged as a principle of political organization in the late eighteenth century: an ideologically structured perception of human difference represented as a biological reality. From a literary metaphor to a cultural category perceived as biological fact, the history of race provides an exemplary instance of how the materiality of the body is bound up with signification in politically determinative ways.
Dancing Jacobins
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Author : Rafael Sánchez
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2016-04-28
Dancing Jacobins written by Rafael Sánchez and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Social Science categories.
Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America’s republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation’s life unfolds. This book apprehends that trope not just as the phantasmatic projection of postcolonial elites fearful of the popular sectors but also as a symptom of a stubborn historical predicament: the cyclical insistence with which the subaltern populations menacingly return to the nation’s public spaces in the form of crowds. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, and drawing on a rich theoretical literature including authors like Derrida, Foucault, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, Lyotard, Laclau, Taussig, and others, Dancing Jacobins is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist “monumental governmentality” that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Informed by a Bolivarian political theology, the nation’s representatives, or “dancing Jacobins,” recursively draw on the repertoire of busts, portraits, and equestrian statues of national heroes scattered across Venezuela in a montage of monuments and dancing—or universal and particular. They monumentalize themselves on the stage of the polity as a ponderously statuesque yet occasionally riotous reflection of the nation’s general will. To this day, the nervous oscillation between crowds and peoplehood intrinsic to this form of government has inflected the republic’s institutions and constructs, from the sovereign “people” to the nation’s heroic imaginary, its constitutional texts, representative figures, parliamentary structures, and, not least, its army. Through this movement of collection and dispersion, these institutions are at all times haunted and imbued from within by the crowds they otherwise set out to mold, enframe, and address.
The Signifying Eye
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Author : Candace Waid
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
The Signifying Eye written by Candace Waid and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Art categories.
A bold book, built of close readings, striking in its range and depth, The Signifying Eye shows Faulkner's art take shape in sweeping arcs of social, labor, and aesthetic history. Beginning with long-unpublished works (his childhood sketches and his hand-drawn and handillustrated play The Marionettes) and early novels (Mosquitoes and Sartoris), working through many major works (The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!), and including more popular fictions (The Wild Palms and The Unvanquished) and late novels (notably Intruder in the Dust and The Town), The Signifying Eye reveals Faulkner's visual obsessions with artistic creation as his work is read next to Wharton, Cather, Toomer, and—in a tour de force intervention—Willem de Kooning. After coloring in southern literature as a "reverse slave narrative," Waid's Eye locates Faulkner's fiction as the "feminist hinge" in a crucial parable of art that seeks abstraction through the burial of the race-defined mother. Race is seen through gender and sexuality while social fall is exposed (in Waid's phrase) as a "coloring of class." Locating "visual language" that constitutes a "pictorial vocabulary," The Signifying Eye delights in literacy as the oral meets the written and the abstract opens as a site to see narrative. Steeped in history, this book locates a heightened reality that goes beyond representation to bring Faulkner's novels, stories, and drawings into visible form through Whistler, Beardsley, Gorky, and de Kooning. Visionary and revisionist, Waid has painted the proverbial big picture, changing the fundamental way that both the making of modernism and the avant-garde will be seen. A Friends Fund publication
Serial Selves
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Author : Frederik Byrn Køhlert
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-15
Serial Selves written by Frederik Byrn Køhlert and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Køhlert examines the genre’s potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or excluded. With a focus on the comics form’s ability to produce alternative and challenging autobiographical narratives, thematic chapters investigate the work of artists writing from perspectives of marginality including gender, sexuality, disability, and race, as well as trauma. Interdisciplinary in scope and attuned to theories and methods from both literary and visual studies, the book provides detailed formal analysis to show that the highly personal and hand-drawn aesthetics of comics can help artists push against established narrative and visual conventions, and in the process invent new ways of seeing and being seen. As the first comparative study of how comics artists from a wide range of backgrounds use the form to write and draw themselves into cultural visibility, Serial Selves will be of interest to anyone interested in the current boom in autobiographical comics, as well as issues of representation in comics and visual culture more broadly.