- Hardcover: 376 pages
- Publisher: Routledge (14 Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415916933
- ISBN-13: 978-0415916936
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,762,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The book is helpfully organized... The essays are consistently innovative...."
-"Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 1999
..."these essays are incredibly learned, filled with analyses of anatomical treatises, ancient medical encyclopedias and commentaries on scripture."
-"The New York Times, 21 November 1997
""The Body in Parts is a must-read not only for those interested in the culture of early modern Europe, but for anyone interested in thinking about the modern and post-modern body as well. Its claims for the importance of the body and its discourses for understanding the literary, scientific, political and religious culture of early modern Europe are persuasive and its range--literally from head to toe--and learning admirable. A significant contribution to ongoing work on gender, sexuality and the body."
-Karen Newman, Brown University
""The Body in Parts expands the knowledge of this crucial period of historythrough the exploration of the social, symbolic, and scientific fragmentation of the body, This book will appeal to scholars interested in literature, history, art, and development of scientific knowledge in the early modern era."
-"Sixteenth Century Journal
-"Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 1999
..."these essays are incredibly learned, filled with analyses of anatomical treatises, ancient medical encyclopedias and commentaries on scripture."
-"The New York Times, 21 November 1997
""The Body in Parts is a must-read not only for those interested in the culture of early modern Europe, but for anyone interested in thinking about the modern and post-modern body as well. Its claims for the importance of the body and its discourses for understanding the literary, scientific, political and religious culture of early modern Europe are persuasive and its range--literally from head to toe--and learning admirable. A significant contribution to ongoing work on gender, sexuality and the body."
-Karen Newman, Brown University
""The Body in Parts expands the knowledge of this crucial period of historythrough the exploration of the social, symbolic, and scientific fragmentation of the body, This book will appeal to scholars interested in literature, history, art, and development of scientific knowledge in the early modern era."
-"Sixteenth Century Journal
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An examination of how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. This provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolism of body parts challenge our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation.
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The image that introduces this essay is drawn from a 1539 volume, Les Blasons domestiques, published by Parisian poet-bookseller Gilles Corrozet (Figure 2.1). Read the first page
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Edited collections can be a little hit and miss, and this one is certainly uneven. The introduction by Hillman and Mazzio is good at contextualising the Renaissance discourse of bodily fragmentation and the ideological power of individual body parts. Some of the following essays are excellent: Lobanov-Rostovsky, for example, on the eye. But others feel a little tired (e.g. Vickers on the blazon... again). So a mixed bag, but the good stuff is very good.
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Scholarly analyses.
1 Nov 1997
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Fourteen experts on Renaissance culture and literature dissect various elements of human anatomy to explain how the Early Modern view of the body "in parts" symbolizes the prevailing social conceptions and other aspects of contemporary understanding.
Or, as put in the Introduction: "The relations between bodily and cognitive systems of organization are in many ways most powerfully encoded by the symbolics of any given part, where the tensions between the metaphoric and metonymic, between the floating and the firmly contextualized, or more generally between conditions of autonomy and dependence are powerfully articulated".
Or, as put in the Introduction: "The relations between bodily and cognitive systems of organization are in many ways most powerfully encoded by the symbolics of any given part, where the tensions between the metaphoric and metonymic, between the floating and the firmly contextualized, or more generally between conditions of autonomy and dependence are powerfully articulated".
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