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.
A Body of Writing, 1990-1999
Title | A Body of Writing, 1990-1999 PDF eBook |
Author | Bronwyn Davies |
Publisher | AltaMira Press |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2000-02-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1461705932 |
Weaving together her most influential writings of the 1990s, Bronwyn Davies offers a unique engagement with poststructuralism that defies the boundaries between theory and embodied practice. Whereas poststructuralists are often accused of excessive abstraction, Davies' sophisticated and nuanced discussions of subjectivity, agency, epistemology, feminism, and power are embedded in vital depictions of lived experience and empirical research. A renowned scholar of education and gender formation, Davies shows the importance of poststructural perspectives for her own research in classrooms, on playgrounds, with literary texts, and her own life history. Lucid prose—accessible for students and refreshing for researchers and theorists alike—makes postructural concepts usable as conceptual frameworks for interpreting and analyzing the social world.
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.