{"product_id":"contemporary-literature-and-the-body-9781350180154","title":"Contemporary Literature and the Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different genres. It argues that scholarship on literature and the body is of fundamental importance to discussions about gender, race, sexuality, class, age, narrative form, and processes of reading and writing. \u003ci\u003eContemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction \u003c\/i\u003eunderstands literature' in a broad sense: as fundamentally connected to changes in technology, culture and the environment. Offering a lively and accessible synthesis, it explores how literary writing of present and recent decades is concerned with the challenges of conveying physical experiences, experimenting with sensory perception, and thinking through the relationship between embodiment, identity and knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs with all of Hall’s writing, there is a delightful activism running throughout this important book. She raises the bar on critical discussion, bringing a new alertness to the relevance of the body in literature. Tellingly, she does not overlook how literary texts themselves are kinds of bodies not to be left out in the rush to theory and critical debate * Paul Crawford, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides an expansive overview of the many and complex ways the body has featured in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors engage large and important themes: gender, sexuality, disability, race, affect, ageing, the environment, and issues around the ‘digital’ body. This is important reading for students of literature, cultural history, body studies, and the medical humanities * Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, UK *\u003cbr\u003eA timely introduction to key aspects of how literature deals with bodies. Each chapter is focused and backs its presentation of state-of-the-art theory with readings of literary works. Together they add up to an excellent background for understanding the centrality of the body, whether it is seen through the lens of gender, affect, race, disability, aging, or the posthuman * Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark *\u003cbr\u003eEach essay in this comprehensive anthology critically articulates a partial account of embodied experience that co-constitute literature and the body. ... [T]he collection illuminates the ‘power of the margins’ ... and shows how different forms of situated embodied experiences can affect and be affected by different forms of discourses and texts. * The British Society for Literature and Science *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.Introduction THEMES 2.Gender and Feminism 3.Race and Postcolonial Perspectives 4.Disability 5.Illness and Health 6.Ageing CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES 7.Affect 8.Human Rights 9.Ecocriticism and Animal Studies 10.Digital Humanities and the Posthuman Further reading","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738600649047,"sku":"9781350180154","price":23.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350180154.jpg?v=1720049612","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-literature-and-the-body-9781350180154","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}