The body and the arts / edited by Corinne Saunders, Ulrika Maude and Jane Macnaughton.
| Other author | Saunders, Corinne J., 1963- |
| Other author | Maude, Ulrika. |
| Other author | Macnaughton, Jane. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Description | xv, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Palgrave Connect Literature & Performing Arts Collection 2009 |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Books |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Polyclitus among the philosophers : canons of classical beauty / George Boys-Stones -- Body as graced or vile : tensions in the Christian vision / David Brown -- The smoke of the soul : anatomy, medical spirits and the Rete mirabile : 1538-1643 / Richard Sugg -- The fizziness business / Steven Connor -- Flesh revealed : medicine, art, and anatomy / Jane Macnaughton -- The affective body : love, virtue, and vision in English medieval literature / Corinne Saunders -- Victorian literature and bringing the body back from the dead / Francis O'Gorman -- Modernist bodies : coming to our senses / Ulrika Maude -- Writing the body : modernism and postmodernism / Patricia Waugh -- Detective fiction and the body / P.D. James (in conversation with Corinne Saunders) -- Pygmalion, painted flesh, and the female body / Martin Postle -- Satyrs, spiders, jellyfish, and mutants : Ovidian metamorphosis in contemporary art / Marina Warner -- Body, space, time / Antony Gormley -- Une écriture corporelle : the dancer in the text of Mallarmé and Yeats / Susan Jones -- The erotic and the sacred body in opera : the Venusberg to Monsalvat and beyond / David Fuller -- Celluloid formaldehyde? : the body on film / Judith Buchanan. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008030099 |
| ISBN | 9780230552043 |
| ISBN | 0230552048 |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |