Body and Text in the Eighteenth CenturyVeronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke Stanford University Press, 1. 9. 1994 - Počet stran: 368 Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers. In making clear that the deployment of the body varies tremendously depending on what is meant by the 'human body', the essays draw on popular literature, poetics and aesthetics, garden architecture, physiognomy, beauty manuals, pornography and philosophy, as well as on canonical works in the genres of the novel and the drama. |
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... becomes crucial to understanding present discussions of the body . We have been struck by the fact that , whether it figures in these discussions as the primal object that conserves civilized society or as the best vehicle for radical ...
... becomes crucial to understanding present discussions of the body . We have been struck by the fact that , whether it figures in these discussions as the primal object that conserves civilized society or as the best vehicle for radical ...
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... becomes visible as the body assumes various figures that are responsive to its cultural context and that make it possible to examine the relation between the body as discourse and its scene . Thus Starobinski describes our current ...
... becomes visible as the body assumes various figures that are responsive to its cultural context and that make it possible to examine the relation between the body as discourse and its scene . Thus Starobinski describes our current ...
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... becomes clear as soon as we track the figure of the body in its migrations across recent polemical divides . For example , the body has taken a potentially nostalgic role in the cultural critique of technology , as Starobinski's ...
... becomes clear as soon as we track the figure of the body in its migrations across recent polemical divides . For example , the body has taken a potentially nostalgic role in the cultural critique of technology , as Starobinski's ...
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... becomes grandiose , exaggerated , immeasurable . " 5 This Bakhtinian body is a body associated with joyful excessivity and collective festivity , with impurity and the socially low : " The openings and orifices of this carnival body are ...
... becomes grandiose , exaggerated , immeasurable . " 5 This Bakhtinian body is a body associated with joyful excessivity and collective festivity , with impurity and the socially low : " The openings and orifices of this carnival body are ...
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... becomes very much the locus of a new essentialism , Stallybrass and White place the body in a position of semiotic privilege , and not at the hypothetical center but now and again at all the intersections of " social and psychic reality ...
... becomes very much the locus of a new essentialism , Stallybrass and White place the body in a position of semiotic privilege , and not at the hypothetical center but now and again at all the intersections of " social and psychic reality ...
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Wits Breaks | 45 |
Lockes Eyes Swifts Spectacles | 68 |
The charmd eye | 89 |
The Excesses | 112 |
Coloring Faces | 144 |
The Powers of Horror and the Magic | 163 |
The Body as | 229 |
Disfiguring the Victims Body | 247 |
Mrs Robinson and the Masquerade | 266 |
Notes | 293 |
Index | 343 |
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Strana 48 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Strana 74 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Strana 112 - ... cannot well express and will not reject; he struggles with it a while, and if it continues stubborn, comprises it in words such as occur and leaves it to be disentangled and evolved by those who have more leisure to bestow upon it. Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is subtle, or the image always great where the line is bulky; the equality of words to things is very often neglected, and trivial sentiments and vulgar ideas disappoint the attention, to which they are recommended...
Strana 64 - If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the...
Strana 151 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Strana 64 - Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to this mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the natives of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another, and be united together by their common interest.
Strana 148 - And is this difference of no importance? Is it not the foundation of a greater or less share of beauty in the two races...
Strana 83 - I'll ne'er believe a word they say. 'Tis true, but let it not be known, My eyes are somewhat dimmish grown; For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight; And wrinkles undistinguished pass, For I'm ashamed to use a glass: And till I see them with these eyes, Whoever says you have them, lies.
Strana 60 - This ground with Bacchus, that with Ceres, suits : That other loads the trees with happy fruits : A fourth, with grass unbidden, decks the ground. Thus Tmolus is with yellow saffron crown'd : India black ebon and white iv'ry bears ; And soft Idume weeps her od'rous tears. Thus Pontus sends her beaver stones from far, And naked Spaniards temper steel for war : Epirus, for th' Elean chariot, breeds (In hopes of palms) a race of running steeds.
Strana 79 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.