LEADER 04373nam 22007215 450 001 9910502976003321 005 20240322043323.0 010 $a9783030658069 010 $a3030658066 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-65806-9 035 $a(CKB)4940000000613432 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6733392 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6733392 035 $a(OCoLC)1269056022 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-65806-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000613432 100 $a20210922d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Body Unbound $eLiterary Approaches to the Classical Corpus /$fedited by Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur, Brian P. Sowers 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (272 pages) 225 1 $aThe New Antiquity,$x2946-3025 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9783030658052 311 08$a3030658058 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book explores the body's physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and critical theory and examining material ranging from Homer to Game of Thrones, this volume facilitates an interdisciplinary investigation into how the boundaries of the body define the human form in language. This volume's essays suggest that the body's meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its wholeness. The boundaries of the body are areas of transition between states and are therefore vulnerable. As individuals find themselves isolated from their world and one another, their bodies regularly allow for physical interactions, incur transgressions and violations, and undergo profound transformations. Thus sympathy, sexuality, disease, and violence are among the main themes of the volume, which, ultimately,reexamines the place of the body in our understanding of what it means to be human. 410 0$aThe New Antiquity,$x2946-3025 606 $aClassical literature 606 $aLiterature, Ancient 606 $aLiterature and technology 606 $aMass media and literature 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aFeminism and literature 606 $aClassical and Antique Literature 606 $aLiterature and Technology 606 $aFeminist Literary Theory 615 0$aClassical literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Ancient. 615 0$aLiterature and technology. 615 0$aMass media and literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aFeminism and literature. 615 14$aClassical and Antique Literature. 615 24$aLiterature and Technology. 615 24$aFeminist Literary Theory. 676 $a809.933561 676 $a809.933561 702 $aHsu$b Katherine Lu 702 $aSchur$b David$f1964- 702 $aSowers$b Brian P. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910502976003321 996 $aThe Body Unbound$92569557 997 $aUNINA