04373nam 22007215 450 991050297600332120240322043323.09783030658069303065806610.1007/978-3-030-65806-9(CKB)4940000000613432(MiAaPQ)EBC6733392(Au-PeEL)EBL6733392(OCoLC)1269056022(DE-He213)978-3-030-65806-9(EXLCZ)99494000000061343220210922d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Body Unbound Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus /edited by Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur, Brian P. Sowers1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (272 pages)The New Antiquity,2946-3025Includes index.9783030658052 3030658058 1. Introduction; Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur, Brian P. Sowers -- 2. Pain, Power, and Human Community: Empathy as a "Physical Problem" in Pseudo-Aristotle and Beyond; Brooke Holmes -- 3. The Dread Wayfarer: Philoctetes' Foot; David Schur -- 4. Wounded Immortals: The Painful Paradoxes of Prometheus and Chiron; Katherine Lu Hsu -- 5. Deep Cuts: Rhetoric of Human Dissection, Vivisection, and Surgery in Latin Literature; Michael Goyette -- 6. Why is Male Breast Milk Kosher?: Breastfeeding, Gender, and the Leaky Body in Rabbinic Literature; Jordan D. Rosenblum -- 7. Fragment as Plenitude: Victricius of Rouen on Saintly Bodies; Virginia Burrus -- 8. Violating Vergil's Corpus: The Penetrated Body in Cento Literature; Brian P. Sowers -- 9. Nothing to Lose: Logsex and Genital Injury in Peter of Cornwall's Book of Revelations; Karl Steel -- 10. The Risks of Riding a Dolphin: A Motif in Some Greek and Roman Narratives of Desire; Craig Williams -- 11. Sinister Adaptation: Sensationalism and Violence against Women in Anglo-American Cinema and Roman Drama; T. H. M. Gellar-Goad.This book explores the body's physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and critical theory and examining material ranging from Homer to Game of Thrones, this volume facilitates an interdisciplinary investigation into how the boundaries of the body define the human form in language. This volume's essays suggest that the body's meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its wholeness. The boundaries of the body are areas of transition between states and are therefore vulnerable. As individuals find themselves isolated from their world and one another, their bodies regularly allow for physical interactions, incur transgressions and violations, and undergo profound transformations. Thus sympathy, sexuality, disease, and violence are among the main themes of the volume, which, ultimately,reexamines the place of the body in our understanding of what it means to be human.The New Antiquity,2946-3025Classical literatureLiterature, AncientLiterature and technologyMass media and literatureLiteraturePhilosophyFeminism and literatureClassical and Antique LiteratureLiterature and TechnologyFeminist Literary TheoryClassical literature.Literature, Ancient.Literature and technology.Mass media and literature.LiteraturePhilosophy.Feminism and literature.Classical and Antique Literature.Literature and Technology.Feminist Literary Theory.809.933561809.933561Hsu Katherine LuSchur David1964-Sowers Brian P.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910502976003321The Body Unbound2569557UNINA