Features essays that explore literary texts in relation to the history of gynaecology and women's surgery. This book demonstrates how fiction and medicine have a long-established tradition of looking towards each other for inspiration and elucidation in questions of gender
Exploring body politics, embodiment, the senses, affect, and emotion, Mascia-Lees brings together a key group of scholars to examine historical and contemporary approaches to, and conceptualizations of, the body. The authors situate their examination of embodiment in lived world…
Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic …
26 reflections on nude images from the history of Western art including Rembrandt, Goya, David Hockney and Nan Golden
In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet as processes that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotics models. Renewing…
In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet as processes that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotics models. Renewing…
In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet as processes that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotics models. Renewing…