Approximate Bodies: Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy

ISBN-13: 9780415345606 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 184 str.

Maurizio Calbi

Opis

Approximate Bodies examines the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises.

Recenzje

'Bringing anatomy and drama convincingly together, Approximate Bodies wears its theoretical sophistication lightly. Maurizio Calbi reads early modern texts in the light of Lacan and Foucault, and writes astutely of tragedy and gender.' - Catherine Belsey, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Note on texts Introduction: Thinking about the body 1. "That Body of Hers": The secret, the specular, the spectacular in the Duchess of Malfi and Anatomical Discourses 2. "Behind the Back of Life": Uncanny bodies and identities in the Changeling 3. "A Meer Choas": Moles, abject bodies, and the economy of reproductive discourses 4. "Strange Flesh" and "Unshap't" Bodies: Monstrosity, hyperbolic masculinity and "racial" difference 5. "Un-pleasurable" Detours: Figurations of desire and the body erotic Bibliography Index

O autorze

Maurizio Calbi