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UNINA9910511509903321 |
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Autore |
Ross Charlotte <1974-> |
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Titolo |
Primo Levi's narratives of embodiment : containing the human / / Charlotte Ross |
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New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-86884-4 |
1-136-86885-2 |
1-282-88584-7 |
9786612885846 |
0-203-83719-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 16 |
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Soggetti |
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Holocaust survivors' writings - History and criticism |
Human body in literature |
Mind and body in literature |
Humanity in literature |
Technology in literature |
Human body (Philosophy) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Abbreviations and Translations; Note on Terminology; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Ontologies and Epistemologies; 1 Containers and Their Contents; 2 Embodying (In/Non-)Humanity; 3 Embodied Knowledges and Epistemological Dualism; Part II: Bodily Modifications and Mutations; Foreword: Thinking of the Future: Science Fiction; 4 Bodies, Prostheses and Sentient Technologies; 5 Bureaucratized and Technologized Bodies; 6 Close Couplings and Docile Bodies; 7 Recombining the Organic Human Body; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This innovative reading of Primo Levi's work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment. Discussion spans the range of Levi's works - from testimony to |
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