Lost Bodies : Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death /

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"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."--The IntroductionAmerican popular culture conducts a passionate love affair with the heal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tanner, Laura E., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Menselijk lichaam.
Dood.
Sterven.
Fotografie.
Bellettrie.
Tod > Motiv
Literatur
Körper > Motiv
Krankheit > Motiv
Verlust > Motiv
Human body in literature.
Human beings in art.
Diseases in literature.
Diseases in art.
Death in literature.
Death in art.
Bereavement in literature.
Bereavement in art.
Art, American.
American literature.
PSYCHOLOGY > Movements > Psychoanalysis.
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Deuil dans l'art.
Deuil dans la litterature.
Maladies dans l'art.
Maladies dans la litterature.
Mort dans l'art.
Mort dans la litterature.
Art americain > 20e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Art, American > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
USA.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The dying body
  • 1. Terminal illness and the gaze
  • Shifting the gaze
  • The death-watch in Sharon Olds's The father
  • Sympathetic seeing
  • 2. Haunted images
  • Seeing AIDS
  • Billy Howard's epitaphs for the living
  • Nicholas Nixon's people with AIDS
  • 3. The body in the waiting room
  • "Empty" spaces
  • Johnnies and handbags
  • Literary representations of the medical waiting room
  • pt. 2. The body of grief
  • 4. The contours of grief and the limits of the image
  • Hands
  • Unraveling the chiasm
  • Images of grief in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
  • Camera Lucida and the body of the photograph
  • Disembodied spaces in the images of Shellburne Thurber
  • Remembering the body
  • 5. Teaching the body to talk
  • The language of grief
  • Words and flesh in Carolyn Parkhurst's The dogs of Babel
  • The ghost of the body in Don DeLillo's The body artist
  • 6. Objects of grief
  • The object embrace
  • A sensory semiotics
  • Bodies and objects in Mark Doty's "The wings"
  • The AIDS memorial quilt
  • Postscript : laying the body to rest
  • Bringing the dead to life in popular culture
  • September 11 and beyond.

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