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Book The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth century Literature  Philosophy  and Theology

Download or read book The Purple Island and Anatomy in Early Seventeenth century Literature Philosophy and Theology written by Peter Mitchell and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletcher's use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) - a poetic allegory of human anatomy. This book demonstrates that the analogies and metaphors of literary works share coherence and consistency with anatomy textbooks.

Book Hymeneutics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marie H. Loughlin
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780838753392
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Hymeneutics written by Marie H. Loughlin and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the socio-medical and anatomical construction of the virginal female body in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts in order to develop a historically and culturally specific understanding of virginity and chastity in early modern England. This investigation permits a reevaluation of a series of plays by John Fletcher and his collaborators approximately between 1609 and 1620 that concentrates heavily on the virginal and chaste woman. Instead of seeing Fletcher's frequent, violent interrogations of these women as springing from his personal, pornographic proclivities (a charge which has often been levelled), contemporary medical and anatomical discourses demonstrate that the uncertainty about women's virginity which fuels such interrogations is widespread in the early modern period.

Book Renaissance Woman

Download or read book Renaissance Woman written by Kate Aughterson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a collection of critically informed accounts of women and femininity in early modern England. The work is divided thematically into nine sections, each with an accessible introduction and notes.

Book The Routledge History of Sex and the Body

Download or read book The Routledge History of Sex and the Body written by Sarah Toulalan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book examines the current scholarship and looks towards future directions across the field. The volume is divided into fourteen thematic chapters, which are split into two chronological sections 1500 – 1750 and 1750 to present day. Focusing on the history of sexuality and the body in the West but also interactions with a broader globe, these thematic chapters survey the major areas of debate and discussion. Covering themes such as science, identity, the gaze, courtship, reproduction, sexual violence and the importance of race, the volume offers a comprehensive view of the history of sex and the body. The book concludes with an afterword in which the reader is invited to consider some of the ‘tensions, problems and areas deserving further scrutiny’. Including contributors renowned in their field of expertise, this ground-breaking collection is essential reading for all those interested in the history of sexuality and the body.

Book Microcosmographia   With other poems  By A  Falcao de Resende

Download or read book Microcosmographia With other poems By A Falcao de Resende written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bodies  Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present

Download or read book Bodies Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present written by Kate Fisher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws attention to continuities in thinking about bodies and sex: concept may have changed, but hey nevertheless draw on older ideas and language.

Book University Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gordon Johnson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-02-21
  • ISBN : 9780521897891
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book University Politics written by Gordon Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornford's 1908 satire about Cambridge University politics is still as relevant as ever in this centenary edition.

Book Microcosmographia Academica  Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician

Download or read book Microcosmographia Academica Being a Guide for the Young Academic Politician written by Anon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Microcosmographia

Download or read book Microcosmographia written by Helkiah Crooke and published by . This book was released on 1615 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medicine and Space

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia A. Baker
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2011-12-09
  • ISBN : 900421609X
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Medicine and Space written by Patricia A. Baker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume question how perceptions of space influenced understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health in the classical and medieval periods.

Book Microcosmographia Academica

Download or read book Microcosmographia Academica written by Francis Macdonald Cornford and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twelfth Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Classic Books Company
  • Release : 2001-04
  • ISBN : 0742652947
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Twelfth Night written by William Shakespeare and published by Classic Books Company. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

Book The Sound of Shakespeare

Download or read book The Sound of Shakespeare written by Wes Folkerth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Sound of Shakespeare' reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture. In this engaging study, Wes Folkerth develops listening as a critical practice, attending to the ways in which Shakespeare's plays express their author's awareness of early modern associations between sound and particular forms of ethical and aesthetic experience. Through readings of the acoustic representation of deep subjectivity in Richard III, of the 'public ear' in Antony and Cleopatra, the receptive ear in Coriolanus, the grotesque ear in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the 'greedy ear' in Othello, and the 'willing ear' in Measure for Measure, Folkerth demonstrates that by listening to Shakespeare himself listening, we derive a fuller understanding of why his works continue to resonate so strongly with is today.

Book The Body Emblazoned

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Sawday
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780415157193
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book The Body Emblazoned written by Jonathan Sawday and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sawday offers a compelling study of the culture of dissection in the English Renaissance which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature written by Bradford K. Mudge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature offers an introduction to key debates in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present. It addresses one of the longest standing controversies in literary history: the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable treatments of human sexuality. Whether scurrilous Roman satire, irreverent Restoration drama, or bold Modernist novel, erotic literature pushes the boundaries of the acceptable and challenges the conventions of more mainstream literatures. In fifteen chapters that range from ancient Greece and Rome to twentieth-century American, English, French, and Dutch literature, experts in the field confront a variety of related topics, such as the definition and scope of erotic literature, the nature of textual pleasure, historical shifts in the understanding of the normal and the perverse, the relationship between gender and genre, sexual violence, homosexuality, sadomasochism, necrophilia, satire, pornography, etc. Students new to the scholarship are provided with a clear and useful introduction; those already familiar with the field are given an exciting glimpse into the most recent work.

Book Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage

Download or read book Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage written by Amy Kenny and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism applied the four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—to delineate women as porous, polluting, and susceptible to their environment. This book draws on early modern medical texts to provocatively demonstrate how Shakespeare’s canon offers a unique agency to female characters via humoral discourse of the womb. Chapters discuss early modern medicine’s attempt to theorize and interpret the womb, specifically its role in disease, excretion, and conception, alongside passages of Shakespeare’s plays to offer a fresh reading of (geo)humoral subjectivity. The book shows how Shakespeare subversively challenges contemporary notions of female fluidity by accentuating the significance of the womb as a source of self-defiance and autonomy for female characters across his canon.