{"product_id":"symptomatic-subjects-bodies-medicine-and-causation-in-the-literature-of-late-medieval-england-9780812250909","title":"Symptomatic Subjects  Bodies Medicine and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Orlemanski has provided scholars of all kinds of late medieval texts with a vital set of critical tools with which they might newly attend to the uncertain, plural, and fluid relationship between body, self, and other, and to the sustained medieval conversations that took place between literary and medical writings.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Through her dynamic readings of texts that feature descriptions of bodily processes, Orlemanski shows that late medieval literary writers had come to see literary production as a space in which embodiment, textuality, and signification could be explored . . . [W]hat Orlemanski does in her literary readings is energizing and challenging. Her book's engagement with late medieval textuality and physicality will be of great interest to scholars in the field.\" * \u003ci\u003eStudies in the Age of Chaucer\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[V]ery erudite and interesting . . . \u003ci\u003eSymptomatic Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive tour de force of literary and philosophical- especially semiotic-analysis. As the title indicates, it centers on causality as manifested in ailing human bodies. Having established the historical and philosophical background, the author turns to contemporary literature to substantiate and analyze the medical contents of several works.\" * \u003ci\u003eIsis\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e[P]atient, sustained, synthetic historical exposition plays into patient, sustained, coherent, often intricate readings. The casually browsing reader might suppose this to be a literary history of\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ephysik,\u003c\/i\u003e but \u003ci\u003eSymptomatic Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is more intellectually gripping than that.\u003c\/p\u003e \" * SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *\u003cbr\u003e\"An exciting, accomplished, and dazzling book. Julie Orlemanski is reinventing the field of literature and medicine, making a signal contribution to the medical humanities while gifting the field of Middle English studies with a bracing series of new interpretations that will influence our readings of medieval and other literatures for many years to come.\" * Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviationsix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THINKING WITH \u003ci\u003ePhisik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Imagining Etiology\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Cause, Authority, Sign, and Book\u003cbr\u003e PART II. PLAYING WITH \u003ci\u003ePhisik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Satire and Medical Materialism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Embodying Causation in Exempla\u003cbr\u003e PART III. EMPLOTTING \u003ci\u003ePhisik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Metaphysics of \u003ci\u003ePhisik\u003c\/i\u003e in the \"Knight's Tale\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Desire and Defacement in the \u003ci\u003eTestament of Cresseid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. PERSONALIZING \u003ci\u003ePhisik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Symptoms and the Signifying Condition in Hoccleve's \u003ci\u003eSeries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. From Noise to Narration in the \u003ci\u003eBook of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coda\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MT - University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577539957079,"sku":"9780812250909","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812250909.jpg?v=1746095743","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/symptomatic-subjects-bodies-medicine-and-causation-in-the-literature-of-late-medieval-england-9780812250909","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}