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9780791443828

The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791443828

  • ISBN10:

    0791443825

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-12-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Summary

An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom.

The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison. Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded.

Author Biography

Dennis Patrick Slattery is Interdisciplinary Coordinator and Core Faculty Member, the Mythological Studies Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh
1(20)
Nature and Narratives
Feeding the Fictions of the Body in Homer's Odyssey
21(30)
Wandering Wounds and Meandering Words
The Tragic Body of Memory in Oedipus Rex
51(18)
Speak Daggers But Use None
Denmark's Wounded Body
69(16)
Rousseau's Confessions
Autobiography, Body Cleansing, and the Invention of the Paris Sewer System
85(30)
Corrupting Corpse versus Reasoned Abstraction
The Play of Evil in The Brothers Karamazov
115(16)
The White Whale and the Afflicted Body of Myth
131(26)
Rebellious Things and Deepening Wounds in the Life of Ivan Ilych
157(50)
Wounds and Tattoos
Marking the Mystery in Flannery O'Connor's ``Revelation'' and ``Parker's Back''
177(30)
The Narrative Body and the Incarnate Word in Toni Morrison's Beloved
207(30)
Concluding Reflections
237(4)
Notes 241(22)
Works Cited 263(20)
Index 283

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