The body and the arts
By: edited by Corinne Saunders, Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton.
Contributors: Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-; Maude, Ulrika.; Macnaughton, Jane.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230552043
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; Human figure in art; Body, Human (Philosophy); Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects; Body, Human -- Religious aspects; Body, Human -- Social aspects; Literature and medicine; Medicine and art; Anatomy, Artistic
Table of contents: title: Part I. Thinking the body: Polyclitus among the philosophers: canons of classical beauty / G. Boys-Stones; Body as graced or vile: tensions in the Christian vision / D. Brown; The smoke of the soul: anatomy, medical spirits and the Rete Mirabile, 1538-1643 / R. Sugg; The fizziness business / S. Connor; Flesh revealed: medicine, art and anatomy / J. Macnaughton; title: Part II. Writing the body: The affective body: love, virtue and vision in English medieval literature / C. Saunders; Victorian literature and bringing the body back from the dead / F. OʹGorman; Modernist bodies / U. Maude; Writing the body: modernism and postmodernism / P. Waugh; Detective fiction and the body / P.D. James; title: Part III. Viewing the body: Pygmalion, painted flesh, and the female body / M. Postle; Satyrs, harpies, jellyfish, and mutants: Ovidian metamorphosis in contemporary art / M. Warner; Body, space, time / A. Gormley; Une écriture corporelle: the dancer in the text of Mallarmé and Yeats / S. Jones; title: The erotic and the sacred body in opera: the venusberg to monsalvat and beyond / D. Fuller; Celluloid Formaldehyde? the body on film / J. Buchanan.