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Book and the Body
Dolores Frese (Edited by), Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Edited by)
9780268006990
Hardback, published 1 August 2022
160 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.666 kg
"Four learned and distinguished medievalists pursue the metaphor of the body as book in densely argued essays." —Ecclesiastical History
One of the most exciting developments in recent literary studies bases interpretation on a new understanding of bodily aspects of text. Contributors Mary Carruthers, Michael Camille, Seth Lerer, and Carolyn Dinshaw bring various disciplinary perspectives to this intriguing subject. The method employed here views the body as a text to be read. Though the approaches of these essays are widely varied, three concerns figure and refigure themselves throughout the book: the gendered body and the copied book as locus of pain, pleasure, and desire. They will be of immense interest to medievalists and other scholars of language, philosophy, history, art history, and gender studies. Frese and O'Keeffe explore the liminal areas between the book and the body from contemporary perspectives. Though the approaches of these essays are widely varied, three concerns figure throughout the book: the gendered body and the copied book as locus of pain, pleasure, and desire.