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<p>"Offers its readers stimulating cross-disciplinary perspectives on a variety of literary works and enables each of them to spring to life anew. Its manifest aim, the desire to integrate corporeal and cultural experience in original ways, seems right on target for the nineties."—Ellen Handler Spitz, author of Image and Insight and Museums of the Mind</p> <p>"A major scholarly contribution which will alter and extend the received understanding of the history of the novel."—Peter Rudnytsky, University of Florida</p> <p>The growing field of "body studies," which examine the relationship between corporeal experience and the mind, includes scholars from the areas of psychological literary criticism and semiotics as well as psychoanalysis and gender studies. Combining contemporary linguistics and psychoanalysis, this work focuses on how the body emerges in the novel. In particular, it looks at the role that language plays in integrating the body and the mind.<br> &nbsp;By drawing on language theory forged by Noam Chomsky and on the body awareness articulated by Sigmund Freud and others, Martin Gliserman discovers that the presence of the body is the core phenomenon of the novel. He sc

Author

Gliserman, Martin J.

Publisher

Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813014166

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism