Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction

Author:   Alice Hall
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350180154


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 October 2023
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Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different genres. It argues that scholarship on literature and the body is of fundamental importance to discussions about gender, race, sexuality, class, age, narrative form, and processes of reading and writing. Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction understands ‘literature’ in a broad sense: as fundamentally connected to changes in technology, culture and the environment. Offering a lively and accessible synthesis, it explores how literary writing of present and recent decades is concerned with the challenges of conveying physical experiences, experimenting with sensory perception, and thinking through the relationship between embodiment, identity and knowledge.

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Author:   Alice Hall
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350180154


ISBN 10:   1350180157
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 October 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.Introduction THEMES 2.Gender and Feminism 3.Race and Postcolonial Perspectives 4.Disability 5.Illness and Health 6.Ageing CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES 7.Affect 8.Human Rights 9.Ecocriticism and Animal Studies 10.Digital Humanities and the Posthuman Further reading

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As with all of Hall’s writing, there is a delightful activism running throughout this important book. She raises the bar on critical discussion, bringing a new alertness to the relevance of the body in literature. Tellingly, she does not overlook how literary texts themselves are kinds of bodies not to be left out in the rush to theory and critical debate * Paul Crawford, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK * This book provides an expansive overview of the many and complex ways the body has featured in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors engage large and important themes: gender, sexuality, disability, race, affect, ageing, the environment, and issues around the ‘digital’ body. This is important reading for students of literature, cultural history, body studies, and the medical humanities * Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, UK * A timely introduction to key aspects of how literature deals with bodies. Each chapter is focused and backs its presentation of state-of-the-art theory with readings of literary works. Together they add up to an excellent background for understanding the centrality of the body, whether it is seen through the lens of gender, affect, race, disability, aging, or the posthuman * Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark * Each essay in this comprehensive anthology critically articulates a partial account of embodied experience that co-constitute literature and the body. ... [T]he collection illuminates the ‘power of the margins’ ... and shows how different forms of situated embodied experiences can affect and be affected by different forms of discourses and texts. * The British Society for Literature and Science *


As with all of Hall's writing, there is a delightful activism running throughout this important book. She raises the bar on critical discussion, bringing a new alertness to the relevance of the body in literature. Tellingly, she does not overlook how literary texts themselves are kinds of bodies not to be left out in the rush to theory and critical debate * Paul Crawford, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK * This book provides an expansive overview of the many and complex ways the body has featured in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors engage large and important themes: gender, sexuality, disability, race, affect, ageing, the environment, and issues around the 'digital' body. This is important reading for students of literature, cultural history, body studies, and the medical humanities * Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, UK * A timely introduction to key aspects of how literature deals with bodies. Each chapter is focused and backs its presentation of state-of-the-art theory with readings of literary works. Together they add up to an excellent background for understanding the centrality of the body, whether it is seen through the lens of gender, affect, race, disability, aging, or the posthuman * Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark *


As with all of Hall’s writing, there is a delightful activism running throughout this important book. She raises the bar on critical discussion, bringing a new alertness to the relevance of the body in literature. Tellingly, she does not overlook how literary texts themselves are kinds of bodies not to be left out in the rush to theory and critical debate * Paul Crawford, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK * This book provides an expansive overview of the many and complex ways the body has featured in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors engage large and important themes: gender, sexuality, disability, race, affect, ageing, the environment, and issues around the ‘digital’ body. This is important reading for students of literature, cultural history, body studies, and the medical humanities * Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter, UK * A timely introduction to key aspects of how literature deals with bodies. Each chapter is focused and backs its presentation of state-of-the-art theory with readings of literary works. Together they add up to an excellent background for understanding the centrality of the body, whether it is seen through the lens of gender, affect, race, disability, aging, or the posthuman * Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark *


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Alice Hall is a Lecturer in Contemporary and Global Literature at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Disability and Modern Fiction and Literature and Disability, and is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability. She co-founded the MA in Medical Humanities at York and convenes 'The Body in Modern American Literature and Culture' module.

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