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.
Alice Hall
Contemporary Literature and the Body [PDF ebook]
A Critical Introduction
Contemporary Literature and the Body [PDF ebook]
A Critical Introduction
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 264 ● ISBN 9781350180222 ● Editor Alice Hall ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2023 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 9074176 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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