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- catalog abstract ""An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison. Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11604033.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison.".
- catalog description "Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The wounded body: remembering the markings of flesh -- Nature and narratives: Feeding the fictions of the body in Homer's Odyssey -- Wandering wounds and meandering words: The tragic body of memory in Oedipus Rex -- Speak daggers but use none: Denmark's wounded body -- Rousseau's confessions: Autobiography, body cleansing, and the invention of the Paris sewer system -- Corrupting corpse versus reasoned abstraction: The play of evil in The Brothers Karamazov -- The white whale and the afflicted body of myth -- Rebellious things and deepening wounds in the life of Ivan Ilych -- Wounds and tattoos: Marking the mystery in Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation" and "Parker's back" -- The narrative body and the incarnate word in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Concluding reflections.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 293 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Wounded body.".
- catalog identifier "0791443817 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791443825 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Wounded body.".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog relation "Wounded body.".
- catalog subject "809/.9335 21".
- catalog subject "Human body in literature.".
- catalog subject "Mimesis in literature.".
- catalog subject "PN56.B62 S59 2000".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis and literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The wounded body: remembering the markings of flesh -- Nature and narratives: Feeding the fictions of the body in Homer's Odyssey -- Wandering wounds and meandering words: The tragic body of memory in Oedipus Rex -- Speak daggers but use none: Denmark's wounded body -- Rousseau's confessions: Autobiography, body cleansing, and the invention of the Paris sewer system -- Corrupting corpse versus reasoned abstraction: The play of evil in The Brothers Karamazov -- The white whale and the afflicted body of myth -- Rebellious things and deepening wounds in the life of Ivan Ilych -- Wounds and tattoos: Marking the mystery in Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation" and "Parker's back" -- The narrative body and the incarnate word in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Concluding reflections.".
- catalog title "The wounded body : remembering the markings of flesh / Dennis Patrick Slattery.".
- catalog type "text".