Overview
- Examines material from the ancient to the postclassical, Homer to Game of Thrones
- Considers how the boundaries of the body function to define the human form in language
- Essays suggest that the body's meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its wholeness
Part of the book series: The New Antiquity (NANT)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the body’s physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and critical theory and examining material ranging from Homer to Game of Thrones, this volume facilitates an interdisciplinary investigation into how the boundaries of the body define the human form in language. This volume’s essays suggest that the body’s meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its wholeness. The boundaries of the body are areas of transition between states and are therefore vulnerable. As individuals find themselves isolated from their world and one another, their bodies regularly allow for physical interactions, incur transgressions and violations, and undergo profound transformations. Thus sympathy, sexuality, disease, and violence are among the main themes of the volume, which, ultimately, reexamines the place of the body in our understanding of what it means to be human.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Katherine Lu Hsu is Assistant Professor of Classics at College of the Holy Cross, USA. She is author of The Violent Hero: Heracles in the Greek Imagination (2021) and articles on Greek tragedy and myth. She has also taught at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA, where she directed the Latin/Greek Institute.
David Schur is Associate Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA, and the CUNY Graduate Center. He has written studies of Heraclitus, Homer, and Plato, as well as Kafka and Freud. He is especially interested in methodologies of literary close reading.
Brian P. Sowers is Assistant Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA. He has published on late antique reading communities, early Christian female martyrs, and the use of ancient literature to resist contemporary white supremacy. His first book is In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Body Unbound
Book Subtitle: Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus
Editors: Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur, Brian P. Sowers
Series Title: The New Antiquity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65806-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65805-2Published: 23 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65808-3Published: 24 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65806-9Published: 22 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-3017
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 265
Topics: Classical and Antique Literature, Literature, general