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Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment
Author: Ricarda Wagner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-10-21
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 3110645440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures,” (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume’s focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.
Carnal Inscriptions
Author: S. Antebi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-05-25
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 023062166X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from José Martí's late nineteenth century crónicas, to Mario Bellatín's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco to the testimonio and filmic depictions of Gabriela Brimmer.
Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real
Author: Arka Chattopadhyay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1501341162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real proposes writing as a mathematical and logical operation to build a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Samuel Beckett's prose works. Arka Chattopadhyay studies aspects such as the fundamental operational logic of a text, use of mathematical forms like geometry and arithmetic, the human obsession with counting, the moving body as an act of writing and love, and sexuality as a challenge to the limits of what can be written through logic and mathematics. Chattopadhyay reads Beckett's prose works, including How It Is, Company, Worstward Ho, Malone Dies and Enough to highlight this terminal writing, which halts endless meanings with the material body of the word and gives Beckett a medium to inscribe what cannot be written otherwise.
Michael Ondaatje: Haptic Aesthetics and Micropolitical Writing
Author: Milena Marinkova
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-07-14
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1441114033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study of selected literary and cinematic works by Michael Ondaatje investigates the political potential of the Canadian author's aesthetics. Contributing to current debates about affect and representation, ideology critique and the artwork, trauma and testimony, this book uses the concept of the haptic to demonstrate how Ondaatje's multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an enabling relationship between audience, author and text. This is where Ondaatje's micropolitics, often misconstrued as ideologically suspect aestheticism, emerges: a praxis that intimates how one can write and read politically with a difference.
Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography
Author: Gerhard Richter
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780814330838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography is not merely the most extensive and insightful treatment of Benjamin 's autobiographical writings.
Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing
Author: Brinda Mehta
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2007-04-26
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780815631354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume carefully assesses fixed notions of Arab womanhood by exploring the complexities of Arab women’s lives as portrayed in literature. Encompassing women writers and critics from Arab, French, and English traditions, it forges a transnational Arab feminist consciousness. Brinda Mehta examines the significance of memory rituals in women’s writings, such as the importance of water and purification rites in Islam and how these play out in the women’s space of the hammam (Turkish bath). Mehta shows how sensory experiences connect Arab women to their past. Specific chapters raise awareness of the experiences of Palestinian women in exile and under occupation, Bedouin and desert rituals, and women’s views on conflict in Iraq and Lebanon, and the compatibility between Islam and feminism. At once provocative and enlightening, this work is a groundbreaking addition to the timely field of modern Arab women’s writing and criticism and Arab literary studies.
Inscription and Rebellion
Author: Sonja E. Klocke
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1571139338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of symptomatic female bodies to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms.
Volatile Bodies
Author: Elizabeth Grosz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1994-06-22
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780253208620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural 'origin' outside culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is subject to the endless rewriting and inscription that constitute all sign systems. Grosz demonstrates that the theories of, among others, Freud and Lacan theorize a male body. She then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women--menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause--to lay the groundwork for new theories of sexed corporeality."--Back cover.
Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany
Author: Ms Alice E Sanger
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-01-22
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781409400790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Positing Medici women’s patronage as a network of devotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities that depended on seeing and being seen, Alice Sanger focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries. By examining the religious dimensions of the Medici grand duchesses' art patronage and collecting activities alongside their visually resonant devotional and public acts, this book adds a new dimension to the current scholarship on women’s patronage in early modern Italy.
