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Contemporary Literature and the Body

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781350180154
  • Weight: 333g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 214mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different genres. It argues that scholarship on literature and the body is of fundamental importance to discussions about gender, race, sexuality, class, age, narrative form, and processes of reading and writing. Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction understands ‘literature’ in a broad sense: as fundamentally connected to changes in technology, culture and the environment.

Offering a lively and accessible synthesis, it explores how literary writing of present and recent decades is concerned with the challenges of conveying physical experiences, experimenting with sensory perception, and thinking through the relationship between embodiment, identity and knowledge.
About
Alice Hall is a Lecturer in Contemporary and Global Literature at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Disability and Modern Fiction and Literature and Disability, and is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability. She co-founded the MA in Medical Humanities at York and convenes 'The Body in Modern American Literature and Culture' module.