The Body and the Arts

by Saunders, Corinne; Maude, Ulrika; Macnaughton, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780230552043
• ISBN10: 0230552048
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Body and the Artsfocuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts.

Author Biography

CORINNE SAUNDERS is Professor of English Literature in the University of Durham, UK. She specializes in medieval literature and the history of ideas. Her publications include The Forest of Medieval Romance: Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England, two edited books on Chaucer, and A Companion to Romance. She has recently completed a new monograph, Magic in Medieval English Romance.

ULRIKA MAUDE is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Durham, UK. She is the author of Beckett, Technology and the Body and co-editor of Beckett and Phenomenology.
 
JANE MACNAUGHTON is Director of the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine and Senior Lecturer in medical education at Durham University, UK. She is also a GP who currently works in gynaecology. Her main research interest is in medical humanities, especially literature and medicine, and she has published in this as well as in philosophy and medicine. Her books include Clinical Judgement: Evidence in Practice (with Robin Downie) and an edited volume (with Corinne Saunders), Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Thinking The Body Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons of Classical Beauty

Body as Graced or Vile: Tensions in the Christian Vision

The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and the Rete Mirabile: 1538-1643

The Fizziness Business

Flesh Revealed: Medicine, Art and Anatomy

Writing The Body The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in English Medieval Literature

Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back from the Dead

Modernist Bodies: Coming to Our Senses

Writing the Body: Modernism and Postmodernism

Detective Fiction and the Body

Viewing The Body Pygmalion, Painted Flesh, and the Female Body

Satyrs, Harpies, Jellyfish, and Mutants: Ovidian Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art

Body, Space, Time

Une criture corporelle: The Dancer in the Text of Mallarm and Yeats

The Erotic and the Sacred Body in Opera: the Venusberg to Monsalvat and beyond

The Body on Film

Index

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