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Vaught, Jennifer C. (ed.), Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England, Farnham (UK) - Burlington (VT), Ashgate (Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity), 2013, xiii + 243 pp.
- Resum
- Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science, and medicine in England and its surrounding European context. In keeping with the critical trend over the past decade to foreground the matter of the body and the emotions, these essays track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health — physical, emotional, and spiritual. The contributors to this collection approach their intriguing subjects from a wide range of timely, theoretical, and interdisciplinary perspectives, including the philosophy of language, semiotics, and linguistics; ecology; women's and gender studies; religion; and the history of medicine. The essays focus on works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others; the genres of epic, lyric, satire, drama, and the sermon; and cultural history artifacts such as medieval anatomies, the arithmetic of plague bills of mortality, meteorology, and medical guides for healthy regimens.
Contents:
* Rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England / Jennifer C. Vaught
-- Pt. 1. Reading the instructive language of the body in the Middle Ages
* Episcopal anatomies of the early Middle Ages / Lisi Oliver & Maria Mahoney
* «This disfigured people»: representations of sin as pathological bodily and mental affliction in Dante's Inferno XXIX-XXX / James C. Nohrnberg
* «My body to warente...»: linguistic corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner / Laila Abdalla
-- Pt. 2. Imaginative discourses of sexuality, delightful and dangerous
* Spenser's Crowd of cupids and the language of pleasure / William A. Oram
* Cordelia's can't: rhetorics of reticence and (dis)ease in King Lear / Emma L.E. Rees
-- Pt. 3. Bodily metaphors of disease and science in Renaissance England
* Reckoning death: women and the bills of mortality in early modern London / Richelle Munkhoff
* «Revolving this will teach thee how to curse»: a lesson in sublunary exhalations / Rebecca Totaro
-- Pt. 4. The power of linguistic infection and cure in early modern literature and medicine
* Shakespeare and the irony of early modern metaphor and metonymy / William Spates
* Body of death: the Pauline inheritance in Donne's sermons, Spenser's Maleger, and Milton's Sin and death / Judith H. Anderson
* Subventing disease: anger, passions, and the non-naturals / Stephen Pender
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Història de la literatura
- URL
- https://books.google.cat/books?id=uoYlzJIyxWwC&lpg= ...
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