Primo Levi's narratives of embodiment : containing the human / / Charlotte Ross
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Ross Charlotte <1974->
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| Titolo: |
Primo Levi's narratives of embodiment : containing the human / / Charlotte Ross
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 853/.914 |
| Soggetto topico: | Holocaust survivors' writings - History and criticism |
| Human body in literature | |
| Mind and body in literature | |
| Humanity in literature | |
| Technology in literature | |
| Human body (Philosophy) | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 journalism, from essays to science fiction stories - identifying and tracing multiple narratives of embodiment and disembodiment across his oeuvre. These narratives range from the abject, disembodied condition of prisoners in Auschwitz, to posthuman or cyborg individuals, whose bodies merge with technological devices. Levi's representations of bodies are explored in relation to theories of |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Primo Levi's narratives of embodiment |
| ISBN: | 1-136-86884-4 |
| 1-136-86885-2 | |
| 1-282-88584-7 | |
| 9786612885846 | |
| 0-203-83719-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910511509903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 16.