The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors froma variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts. ÍNDICE: Contents - List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; C.Saunders, U.Maude and J.Macnaughton - PART I: THINKING THE BODY - Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons of Classical Beauty;G.Boys-Stones - Body as Graced or Vile: Tensions in the Christian Vision; D.Brown - The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and the Rete Mirabile: 1538-1643; R.Sugg - The Fizziness Business; S.Connor - Flesh Revealed: Medicine, Art and Anatomy; J.Macnaughton - PART II: WRITING THE BODY - The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in English Medieval Literature; C.Saunders - Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back from the Dead; F.Ob Gorman - Modernist Bodies: Coming to Our Senses; U.Maude - Writing the Body: Modernism and Postmodernism; P.Waugh - Detective Fiction and the Body; P.D.James (in conversation with C.Saunders) - PART III: VIEWING THE BODY - Pygmalion, Painted Flesh, and the Female Body; M.Postle - Satyrs, Harpies, Jellyfish, and Mutants: Ovidian Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art; M.Warner - Body, Space, Time; A.Gormley - Une C)criture corporelle: The Dancer in the Text of MallarmC) and Yeats; S.Jones - The Erotic and the Sacred Body in Opera: the Venusberg to Monsalvat band beyond; D.Fuller - Celluloid Formaldehyde? The Body on Film; J.Buchanan -Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-55204-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 19/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés