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Medicine and art, Human figure in art, English literature, Social aspects, History and criticism, Artistic Anatomy, Human body in literature, Literature and medicine, Symbolic aspects, Human body (Philosophy), Human body, Religious aspects, English literature, history and criticism, Human body (philosophy), Human body, religious aspects, Human body, social aspects, Anatomy, artistic
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Cover of: Body and the Arts
Body and the Arts
2009, Palgrave Macmillan Limited
in English
Cover of: The body and the arts
The body and the arts
2009, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
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Body and the Arts
2009, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

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. OʹGorman; Modernist bodies / U. Maude; Writing the body: modernism and postmodernism / P. Waugh; Detective fiction and the body / P.D. James
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 écriture corporelle: the dancer in the text of Mallarmé and Yeats / S. Jones
The erotic and the sacred body in opera: the venusberg to monsalvat and beyond / D. Fuller; Celluloid Formaldehyde? the body on film / J. Buchanan.

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700/.4561
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PR149.B62 B63 2009, NX1-820PN2100-PN2193

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Pagination
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OL16990548M
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0230552048
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9780230552043
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2008030099
OCLC/WorldCat
234257161
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8887052

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