Writing from the Body
Title | Writing from the Body PDF eBook |
Author | John Lee |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1994-11-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780312115364 |
Developed from John Lee's popular workshops that combine meditative exercises, physical action, and emotional release work, Writing From the Body combats the fears, self-imposed standards, and suppressed feelings that block writers' creative potential. It frees those feelings and teaches writers how to use them productively.
Body of Writing
Title | Body of Writing PDF eBook |
Author | René Prieto |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2000-04-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0822380722 |
Body of Writing focuses on the traces that an author’s “body” leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American writers of the twentieth century, René Prieto examines narratives that reflect—in differing yet ultimately complementary ways—the imprint of the author’s body, thereby disclosing insights about power, aggression, transgression, and eroticism. Healthy, invalid, lustful, and confined bodies—as portrayed by Julio Cortázar, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gabriel García Márquez, Severo Sarduy, Rosario Castellanos, and Tununa Mercado—become evidence for Roland Barthes’s contention that works of fiction are “anagrams of the body.” Claiming that an author’s intentions can be uncovered by analyzing “the topography of a text,” Prieto pays particular attention not to the actions or plots of these writers’ fiction but rather to their settings and characterizations. In the belief that bodily traces left on the page reveal the motivating force behind a writer’s creative act, he explores such fictional themes as camouflage, deterioration, defilement, entrapment, and subordination. Along the way, Prieto reaches unexpected conclusions regarding topics that include the relationship of the female body to power, male and female transgressive impulses, and the connection between aggression, the idealization of women, and anal eroticism in men. This study of how authors’ longings and fears become embodied in literature will interest students and scholars of literary and psychoanalytic criticism, gender studies, and twentieth-century and Latin American literature.
The Body and the Book
Title | The Body and the Book PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Spicher Kasdorf |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0271035447 |
"A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority"--Provided by publisher.
When You Find My Body
Title | When You Find My Body PDF eBook |
Author | D. Dauphinee |
Publisher | Down East Books |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2019-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1608936910 |
Geraldine Largay vanished in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Her disappearance sparked the largest lost-person search in Maine history, which culminated in her being presumed dead. She was never again seen alive.
Writing and the Body in Motion
Title | Writing and the Body in Motion PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl Pallant |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 189 |
Release | 2018-04-15 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1476631719 |
Based upon the author's lifetime practices as a dancer, poet and teacher, this innovative approach to developing body awareness focuses on achieving self-discovery and well-being through movement, mindfulness and writing. Written from a holistic (rather than dualistic) view of the mind-body duality, discussion and exercises draw on dance, psychology, neuroscience and meditation to guide personal exploration and creative expression.
Oregon Writes
Title | Oregon Writes PDF eBook |
Author | Jenn Kepka |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Academic writing |
ISBN |
This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field, the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon. Created through a grant from Open Oregon in 2015-16, this book collects previously published articles, essays, and chapters released under Creative Commons licenses into one free textbook available for online access or print-on-demand.
Derrida and the Writing of the Body
Title | Derrida and the Writing of the Body PDF eBook |
Author | Jones Irwin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317152689 |
Michel Foucault refers to 1965-1970 as, in philosophical terms, 'the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years'. This book reinterprets Jacques Derrida's work from this period, most especially in L'Écriture et la Différence (Writing and Difference), and argues that a transformation takes place here which has been marginalized in readings of his work to date. Irwin follows with a look at how the 'grammatological opening' becomes crucial for Derrida's work in the 1970s and beyond, incorporating one of his last readings of embodiment from 2000. By drawing our attention to the politics of desire and sexuality, this groundbreaking book engages with the work of key continental theorists, including Artaud, Bataille, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Habermas and Cixous, whilst also examining Derrida's relationship with Plato and feminist theory. It will appeal to a wide range of readers within the social sciences and philosophy, particularly those with interests in gender and sexuality, social theory, continental thought, queer studies and literary theory.