| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
"The Past of Flesh: Mortal and Immortal Bodies in Ancient Greek Poetry" / E. Douka-Kabitoglou -- "The Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now" / Thomas Laqueur -- "Landscapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory and Philoktetes' Postmodern Painscript" / Savas Patsalidis -- "Fleshly Evils: Clinical and Cultural (Il)Logics of the Chronic Pain Subject in Contemporary US Society" / Cindy Linden -- "Chuck Palaniuk and the Violence of Beauty" / Elisabeth Bronfen -- "Eye, Agency and Bodily Becomings: Processing Breast Cancer In and Through Images" / Katve-Kaisa Kontturi -- "Fantastic 4body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in the Comic-book Culture" / Christina Dokou -- "Emergence: New Flesh and Life in New Media Art" / Edwina Bartlem -- "Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema" / Nicola Rehling -- "Flesh Encounters Biotechnology: Speculations on the Future of the Biological Machine" / Domna Pastourmatzi -- "Modernity and the 'Other Body': The Human Contract with Mute Animality" / Rosi Braidotti -- "Meta(l)flesh" / Linda Williams |
| Summary |
The Future of Flesh examines ways in which "flesh" has been re-conceptualized in late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Its twelve essays analyze contemporary attitudes to corporeal change resulting from pain, death, artistic experimentation or technological intervention, and highlight current transformations in the very definition of "flesh." Cross-disciplinary in their approach, the essays in this collection investigate the limits, the politics and the ethics surrounding corporeal change, and address topics that range from classical heroic bodies, and breast cancer photography to cyberfiction |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human body in literature.
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Human body in popular culture.
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Human body in motion pictures.
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Human figure in art.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human beings in art.
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Sociology.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Society.
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Human body in literature
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Human body in motion pictures
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Human body in popular culture
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Human figure in art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Detsi-Diamanti, Zoe, 1966-
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Kitsē-Mytakou, Katerina
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Yiannopoulou, Effie
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| ISBN |
9780230620858 |
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023062085X |
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9781349378067 |
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1349378062 |
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1282507877 |
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9781282507876 |
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9786612507878 |
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661250787X |
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