Llewelyn Morgan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199554188
- eISBN:
- 9780191594991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554188.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter offers a summary of the salient conclusions of the preceding chapters, with special attention to metre as an arena for Roman negotiation of their relationship to Greece, and the peculiar ...
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This chapter offers a summary of the salient conclusions of the preceding chapters, with special attention to metre as an arena for Roman negotiation of their relationship to Greece, and the peculiar physicality of the Roman conception of metre, related (it is suggested) to its status as an import and as the object of academic study. The hope is expressed that the book, at the very least, will make dismissal of the metrical dimension of a poetic artefact no longer tenable.Less
This chapter offers a summary of the salient conclusions of the preceding chapters, with special attention to metre as an arena for Roman negotiation of their relationship to Greece, and the peculiar physicality of the Roman conception of metre, related (it is suggested) to its status as an import and as the object of academic study. The hope is expressed that the book, at the very least, will make dismissal of the metrical dimension of a poetic artefact no longer tenable.
G. E. R. Lloyd
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199654727
- eISBN:
- 9780191742088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654727.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
Wherein lies the humanity of human beings? Many conflicting answers have been given in ancient and in modern times, with many focussing on what differentiates humans from gods and beasts. This ...
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Wherein lies the humanity of human beings? Many conflicting answers have been given in ancient and in modern times, with many focussing on what differentiates humans from gods and beasts. This chapter reviews a wide range of suggestions, from some of those of ancient Greeks, ancient Chinese, and Christians, to recent anthropological studies, notably Viveiros de Castro’s perspectivism and Descola’s four-fold classification of ontologies based on differing conceptions of physicality and interiority. This great variety of views certainly challenges many of our usual preconceptions, but should not lead us to a conclusion that we inhabit mutually unintelligible worlds. Rather they offer resources for exploring the substantive questions of how humans, with a rich talent for investigation and speculation, have understood the world and one another. That sets the agenda for the studies that follow.Less
Wherein lies the humanity of human beings? Many conflicting answers have been given in ancient and in modern times, with many focussing on what differentiates humans from gods and beasts. This chapter reviews a wide range of suggestions, from some of those of ancient Greeks, ancient Chinese, and Christians, to recent anthropological studies, notably Viveiros de Castro’s perspectivism and Descola’s four-fold classification of ontologies based on differing conceptions of physicality and interiority. This great variety of views certainly challenges many of our usual preconceptions, but should not lead us to a conclusion that we inhabit mutually unintelligible worlds. Rather they offer resources for exploring the substantive questions of how humans, with a rich talent for investigation and speculation, have understood the world and one another. That sets the agenda for the studies that follow.
Julia Flanders
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198236634
- eISBN:
- 9780191679315
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198236634.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Electronic texts are implicated with peculiar force in this notion of the virtual, because the understanding of textuality originates in the same philosophical crux as the ideas of physicality and ...
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Electronic texts are implicated with peculiar force in this notion of the virtual, because the understanding of textuality originates in the same philosophical crux as the ideas of physicality and representation. The electronic text's lack of, or freedom from, a body is a crucial focus for the anxieties and hopes which attach to the new medium. Elegists and enthusiasts alike focus on their assessment of the political and cultural influence of the electronic text on its virtuality. The politics of the traditional text and its production have always had a great deal to do with gender, though not always in an obvious manner. In order to understand the deep-rooted implication of gender in textual beliefs and practices, this chapter takes a brief excursus into the history which has produced the notion of the ‘traditional text’.Less
Electronic texts are implicated with peculiar force in this notion of the virtual, because the understanding of textuality originates in the same philosophical crux as the ideas of physicality and representation. The electronic text's lack of, or freedom from, a body is a crucial focus for the anxieties and hopes which attach to the new medium. Elegists and enthusiasts alike focus on their assessment of the political and cultural influence of the electronic text on its virtuality. The politics of the traditional text and its production have always had a great deal to do with gender, though not always in an obvious manner. In order to understand the deep-rooted implication of gender in textual beliefs and practices, this chapter takes a brief excursus into the history which has produced the notion of the ‘traditional text’.
Louis Moore
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041341
- eISBN:
- 9780252099946
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041341.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
At its heart, I Fight for a Living is a book about black men who came of age in the Reconstruction and early Jim Crow era--a time when the remaking of white manhood was at its most intense, placing ...
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At its heart, I Fight for a Living is a book about black men who came of age in the Reconstruction and early Jim Crow era--a time when the remaking of white manhood was at its most intense, placing vigor and physicality at the center of the construction of manliness. The book uses the stories of black fighters’ lives, from 1880 to 1915, to explore how working-class black men used prizefighting and the sporting culture to assert their manhood in a country that denied their equality, and to examine the reactions by the black middle class and white middle class toward these black fighters. Through these stories, the book explores how the assertion of this working-class manliness confronted American ideas of race and manliness. While other works on black fighters have explored black boxers as individuals, this book seeks to study these men as a collective group while providing a localized and racialized response to black working-class manhood. It was a tough bargain to risk one’s body to prove manhood, but black men across the globe took that chance.Less
At its heart, I Fight for a Living is a book about black men who came of age in the Reconstruction and early Jim Crow era--a time when the remaking of white manhood was at its most intense, placing vigor and physicality at the center of the construction of manliness. The book uses the stories of black fighters’ lives, from 1880 to 1915, to explore how working-class black men used prizefighting and the sporting culture to assert their manhood in a country that denied their equality, and to examine the reactions by the black middle class and white middle class toward these black fighters. Through these stories, the book explores how the assertion of this working-class manliness confronted American ideas of race and manliness. While other works on black fighters have explored black boxers as individuals, this book seeks to study these men as a collective group while providing a localized and racialized response to black working-class manhood. It was a tough bargain to risk one’s body to prove manhood, but black men across the globe took that chance.
Natasha O'Hear
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199590100
- eISBN:
- 9780191725678
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590100.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Chapter 2 presents and analyses the Angers Apocalypse Tapestry (c. l373–80) (hereafter Angers) as a large‐scale example of medieval visual exegesis of the Book of Revelation. The motivation of the ...
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Chapter 2 presents and analyses the Angers Apocalypse Tapestry (c. l373–80) (hereafter Angers) as a large‐scale example of medieval visual exegesis of the Book of Revelation. The motivation of the tapestry's patron. Louis I of Anjou, in commissioning this huge tapestry is discussed as are its possible contemporary uses and parallel tapestries. Its iconographical influences and particularly the influence of the Burckhardt‐Wildt Apocalypse manuscript are also considered. The exegetical innovations of the tapestry with regard to its handling of the source‐text, and in particular its extensive visual focus on the John figure make up the second half of the chapter. The scale of the tapestry and the physicality of the viewing experience remain a focus throughout.Less
Chapter 2 presents and analyses the Angers Apocalypse Tapestry (c. l373–80) (hereafter Angers) as a large‐scale example of medieval visual exegesis of the Book of Revelation. The motivation of the tapestry's patron. Louis I of Anjou, in commissioning this huge tapestry is discussed as are its possible contemporary uses and parallel tapestries. Its iconographical influences and particularly the influence of the Burckhardt‐Wildt Apocalypse manuscript are also considered. The exegetical innovations of the tapestry with regard to its handling of the source‐text, and in particular its extensive visual focus on the John figure make up the second half of the chapter. The scale of the tapestry and the physicality of the viewing experience remain a focus throughout.
Mary Simonson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195365870
- eISBN:
- 9780199932054
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365870.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Opera, History, Western
This chapter explores the most modern medial intervention available to the prima donnas in this book: early film. It seems astonishing to learn that early twentieth-century opera singers such as Mary ...
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This chapter explores the most modern medial intervention available to the prima donnas in this book: early film. It seems astonishing to learn that early twentieth-century opera singers such as Mary Garden and Geraldine Farrar involved themselves in the silent film industry of the 1910s. What was an opera singer doing devoting time and energy to a performance format that by definition ignored her principal attribute? Simonson critiques Garden’s and Farrar’s portrayals on the silver screen of a variety of roles from Joan of Arc to Carmen, and observes a foregrounding of their bodies and exulting in physicality. Not just their screen exploits, but risks they endured while filming were written up eagerly by the press, suggesting that the prima donna became an important iconic figure in the emergence of, and discourse around, new female identities at the beginning of the new century.Less
This chapter explores the most modern medial intervention available to the prima donnas in this book: early film. It seems astonishing to learn that early twentieth-century opera singers such as Mary Garden and Geraldine Farrar involved themselves in the silent film industry of the 1910s. What was an opera singer doing devoting time and energy to a performance format that by definition ignored her principal attribute? Simonson critiques Garden’s and Farrar’s portrayals on the silver screen of a variety of roles from Joan of Arc to Carmen, and observes a foregrounding of their bodies and exulting in physicality. Not just their screen exploits, but risks they endured while filming were written up eagerly by the press, suggesting that the prima donna became an important iconic figure in the emergence of, and discourse around, new female identities at the beginning of the new century.
Barry Stroud
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195151886
- eISBN:
- 9780199867189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195151887.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Argues against the idea that reality is purely physical and can be totally captured by scientific explanation, thus excluding colour from reality. Counters exclusive physicalism by arguing that ...
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Argues against the idea that reality is purely physical and can be totally captured by scientific explanation, thus excluding colour from reality. Counters exclusive physicalism by arguing that explanation does not necessarily constitute a true account of the world and its supposedly subjective qualities, and scientific language does not go beyond the limits of the physical. Raises questions about the link between physical and psychological phenomena and about the view of perception as separate from what is perceived, and argues that an understanding of the perception of colour is required in order metaphysically to unmask its link to physicality.Less
Argues against the idea that reality is purely physical and can be totally captured by scientific explanation, thus excluding colour from reality. Counters exclusive physicalism by arguing that explanation does not necessarily constitute a true account of the world and its supposedly subjective qualities, and scientific language does not go beyond the limits of the physical. Raises questions about the link between physical and psychological phenomena and about the view of perception as separate from what is perceived, and argues that an understanding of the perception of colour is required in order metaphysically to unmask its link to physicality.
Emily Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906733438
- eISBN:
- 9781800342026
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906733438.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter focuses on the significance of male physicality in Pedro Almodóvar's films. Whilst Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002) does not celebrate or objectify the bodies of its central male ...
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This chapter focuses on the significance of male physicality in Pedro Almodóvar's films. Whilst Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002) does not celebrate or objectify the bodies of its central male protagonists so brazenly, before the guitar sequence there is a seemingly out of place shot of a beautiful male body. Cynthia Freeland suggests that the purpose of the shot is 'to conjure up emotions of sensuous pleasure and exploration of bodily rhythms'. The physicality of female actors is also important within Talk to Her. Both Alicia and Lydia use their bodies for professions which require skill and athleticism. The film explores different types of male and female bodies. As such, the body is seen as an important motif within the film. The unconscious body is represented in different ways: as a landscape, as a doll, as a corpse, as a fairy tale princess.Less
This chapter focuses on the significance of male physicality in Pedro Almodóvar's films. Whilst Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002) does not celebrate or objectify the bodies of its central male protagonists so brazenly, before the guitar sequence there is a seemingly out of place shot of a beautiful male body. Cynthia Freeland suggests that the purpose of the shot is 'to conjure up emotions of sensuous pleasure and exploration of bodily rhythms'. The physicality of female actors is also important within Talk to Her. Both Alicia and Lydia use their bodies for professions which require skill and athleticism. The film explores different types of male and female bodies. As such, the body is seen as an important motif within the film. The unconscious body is represented in different ways: as a landscape, as a doll, as a corpse, as a fairy tale princess.
Ann Oakley
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861349378
- eISBN:
- 9781447302360
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861349378.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory
What is the body? A ‘concrete, material, animate organisation of flesh, organs, nerves, muscles, and skeletal structure’ , but one which only takes shape as part of a psychical and social order. ...
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What is the body? A ‘concrete, material, animate organisation of flesh, organs, nerves, muscles, and skeletal structure’ , but one which only takes shape as part of a psychical and social order. Corporeal existence dominates everyday life — people eat, sleep, excrete, copulate, ambulate: one's being in the world depends utterly on the body's physicality. However, while the body is the most abiding presence in one's life, the main feature of this presence is actually absence. The problem with bodies is that they're both material objects and the site of human experience. This chapter argues that although one lives in one's bodies, one's social and personal identities are separate from them.Less
What is the body? A ‘concrete, material, animate organisation of flesh, organs, nerves, muscles, and skeletal structure’ , but one which only takes shape as part of a psychical and social order. Corporeal existence dominates everyday life — people eat, sleep, excrete, copulate, ambulate: one's being in the world depends utterly on the body's physicality. However, while the body is the most abiding presence in one's life, the main feature of this presence is actually absence. The problem with bodies is that they're both material objects and the site of human experience. This chapter argues that although one lives in one's bodies, one's social and personal identities are separate from them.
Ted Honderich
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198714385
- eISBN:
- 9780191782794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714385.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
There are different kinds of definitions. We need one of objective physicality, the dominant understanding of the physical in science and philosophy, that is not persuasive, prescriptive, purposive, ...
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There are different kinds of definitions. We need one of objective physicality, the dominant understanding of the physical in science and philosophy, that is not persuasive, prescriptive, purposive, preoccupied, or otherwise attitudinal. A clarifying and explicit definition has two parts. (1) What is objectively physical has physical characteristics, having to do with science’s inventory, scientific method, space and time, particular lawful connections, categorial lawful connections, ordinary or macrocosmic physical things being perceived, microcosmic and other things related to them, ordinary things being in points of view, resulting differences, primary and secondary properties. (2) As for objective characteristics, these have to do with separateness from consciousness, not being private, not being in anyone’s privileged access, related in a way to truth and logic, scientific method again, no inconsistent metaphysical selves, hesitation about consciousness in the primary ordinary sense having all the above characteristics of the objectively physical.Less
There are different kinds of definitions. We need one of objective physicality, the dominant understanding of the physical in science and philosophy, that is not persuasive, prescriptive, purposive, preoccupied, or otherwise attitudinal. A clarifying and explicit definition has two parts. (1) What is objectively physical has physical characteristics, having to do with science’s inventory, scientific method, space and time, particular lawful connections, categorial lawful connections, ordinary or macrocosmic physical things being perceived, microcosmic and other things related to them, ordinary things being in points of view, resulting differences, primary and secondary properties. (2) As for objective characteristics, these have to do with separateness from consciousness, not being private, not being in anyone’s privileged access, related in a way to truth and logic, scientific method again, no inconsistent metaphysical selves, hesitation about consciousness in the primary ordinary sense having all the above characteristics of the objectively physical.
Jane Tolmie (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617039058
- eISBN:
- 9781621039907
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617039058.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of ...
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Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics. This book is about autobiography, semi-autobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and self-narration in sequential art, or comics. The book engages with well-known figures such as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; with cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn James; and with lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet. Negotiations between artist/writer/body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived, requiring a critical turn towards theorizing the comics’ viewer. At stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is embodiment. Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in sequential art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality. Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke first? What images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man or mouse? Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist must confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do so with fascinating results.Less
Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics. This book is about autobiography, semi-autobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and self-narration in sequential art, or comics. The book engages with well-known figures such as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; with cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn James; and with lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet. Negotiations between artist/writer/body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived, requiring a critical turn towards theorizing the comics’ viewer. At stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is embodiment. Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in sequential art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality. Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke first? What images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man or mouse? Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist must confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do so with fascinating results.
Keith Chapin and Andrew H. Clark (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823251384
- eISBN:
- 9780823253029
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823251384.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
The ways of speaking of music are many. People chat about it every day and in everyday language, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. Speech is in one sense ...
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The ways of speaking of music are many. People chat about it every day and in everyday language, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. Speech is in one sense different from music, but in another all speech is itself musical. By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture—musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political—this volume offers a unique and snapshot of today's scholarship on speech about music. All from the points of view of their own disciplines, the experts here treat the variety of types of speech about music and musical speech, from historical to contemporary, mundane to specialized. Even as they diverge and differ in their approaches, the scholars coalesce in adumbrating common issues and developing certain topoi: physicality and performance, limits and supplements, ineffability and space, and so forth. These common topoi, discussed in the introduction, show the ways that this subject continues to resonate in tones particular to the twenty-first century. The range of considerations and material is wide. Among others, they include the words used to interpret musical works, the words used to channel musical practices, and the words used to represent music. The contributors consider the ways that music may slide by words, and the ways that music may serve as an embodied figure.Less
The ways of speaking of music are many. People chat about it every day and in everyday language, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. Speech is in one sense different from music, but in another all speech is itself musical. By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture—musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political—this volume offers a unique and snapshot of today's scholarship on speech about music. All from the points of view of their own disciplines, the experts here treat the variety of types of speech about music and musical speech, from historical to contemporary, mundane to specialized. Even as they diverge and differ in their approaches, the scholars coalesce in adumbrating common issues and developing certain topoi: physicality and performance, limits and supplements, ineffability and space, and so forth. These common topoi, discussed in the introduction, show the ways that this subject continues to resonate in tones particular to the twenty-first century. The range of considerations and material is wide. Among others, they include the words used to interpret musical works, the words used to channel musical practices, and the words used to represent music. The contributors consider the ways that music may slide by words, and the ways that music may serve as an embodied figure.
Maria Tapias
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039171
- eISBN:
- 9780252097157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039171.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores the elusive and porous boundaries of the body among Punata residents as well as the relationship between physicality and sociality. It also considers the conceptualizations ...
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This chapter explores the elusive and porous boundaries of the body among Punata residents as well as the relationship between physicality and sociality. It also considers the conceptualizations people have about the “fluidity” of emotions and the predicaments inherent in the expression of emotions, larger Andean notions of corporeality, sociability, and the flow of substances between individuals. It shows that the individual and social bodies are intrinsically interconnected throughout the Andes: action in one physical or emotional sphere can exert effects in another. It explains how the boundaries of the body are deeply challenged in the context of Punata and offer insights into how illness processes are conceptualized and lived. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the politics of emotional expression; how the “mechanics” of the accumulation and elimination of emotions are inextricably linked to gender, class, ethnicity, and age.Less
This chapter explores the elusive and porous boundaries of the body among Punata residents as well as the relationship between physicality and sociality. It also considers the conceptualizations people have about the “fluidity” of emotions and the predicaments inherent in the expression of emotions, larger Andean notions of corporeality, sociability, and the flow of substances between individuals. It shows that the individual and social bodies are intrinsically interconnected throughout the Andes: action in one physical or emotional sphere can exert effects in another. It explains how the boundaries of the body are deeply challenged in the context of Punata and offer insights into how illness processes are conceptualized and lived. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the politics of emotional expression; how the “mechanics” of the accumulation and elimination of emotions are inextricably linked to gender, class, ethnicity, and age.
Valerie Anishchenkova
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748643400
- eISBN:
- 9781474406321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643400.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
The particularities of cultural and ideological discourses in the Arab world, as well as traditional literary conventions, have informed a troubled relationship between Arab autobiographers and their ...
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The particularities of cultural and ideological discourses in the Arab world, as well as traditional literary conventions, have informed a troubled relationship between Arab autobiographers and their autobiographical bodies. But if human body was virtually absent in early works of the genre, physicality has gradually become an important site for the construction of autobiographical identity. This chapter investigates two distinct dimensions in which corporeal selfhood is articulated – sexuality and disability. Muhammad Shukri’s Bare Bread (1973) and Nazik Saba Yarid’s Improvisations on a Missing String (1992) serve as core studies.Less
The particularities of cultural and ideological discourses in the Arab world, as well as traditional literary conventions, have informed a troubled relationship between Arab autobiographers and their autobiographical bodies. But if human body was virtually absent in early works of the genre, physicality has gradually become an important site for the construction of autobiographical identity. This chapter investigates two distinct dimensions in which corporeal selfhood is articulated – sexuality and disability. Muhammad Shukri’s Bare Bread (1973) and Nazik Saba Yarid’s Improvisations on a Missing String (1992) serve as core studies.
Eric Dietrich
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231171021
- eISBN:
- 9780231539357
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171021.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter explores the prevailing scientific attitudes regarding the acceptance of physicalism, and in contrast, its rejection of dualism as a nigh-heretical notion with little scientific basis. ...
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This chapter explores the prevailing scientific attitudes regarding the acceptance of physicalism, and in contrast, its rejection of dualism as a nigh-heretical notion with little scientific basis. Science can only study what is physical because science has to measure things in order to be science, and measuring requires physicality. Yet conscious experience itself has been reevaluated and seems to be somehow nonphysical or extraphysical, therefore it behooves one to reconsider dualism and how it can explain this phenomenon. If dualism is true, then consciousness is beyond the reach of science—there could more to conscious life in this universe than can be explained by science, thus inviting the opportunity to ponder such a mystery.Less
This chapter explores the prevailing scientific attitudes regarding the acceptance of physicalism, and in contrast, its rejection of dualism as a nigh-heretical notion with little scientific basis. Science can only study what is physical because science has to measure things in order to be science, and measuring requires physicality. Yet conscious experience itself has been reevaluated and seems to be somehow nonphysical or extraphysical, therefore it behooves one to reconsider dualism and how it can explain this phenomenon. If dualism is true, then consciousness is beyond the reach of science—there could more to conscious life in this universe than can be explained by science, thus inviting the opportunity to ponder such a mystery.
Peter Lurie
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604735604
- eISBN:
- 9781621033318
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604735604.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter examines the role and function of the erotic in William Faulkner’s fiction. More specifically, it traces Faulkner’s treatment of the erotic in urban settings from his early work, ...
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This chapter examines the role and function of the erotic in William Faulkner’s fiction. More specifically, it traces Faulkner’s treatment of the erotic in urban settings from his early work, including Mosquitoes, Pylon, and Sanctuary, to his later writings such as Absalom, Absalom! and The Hamlet. The chapter considers Faulkner’s modernism in relation to genuine and physical love, as well as what he saw as the deadening effects on sexuality of the city and the role in the modern metropolis of an abstract, impersonal market economy. It also analyzes how Faulkner’s use of an increasingly heightened prose style moves his fiction closer to an expression of physicality and eroticism.Less
This chapter examines the role and function of the erotic in William Faulkner’s fiction. More specifically, it traces Faulkner’s treatment of the erotic in urban settings from his early work, including Mosquitoes, Pylon, and Sanctuary, to his later writings such as Absalom, Absalom! and The Hamlet. The chapter considers Faulkner’s modernism in relation to genuine and physical love, as well as what he saw as the deadening effects on sexuality of the city and the role in the modern metropolis of an abstract, impersonal market economy. It also analyzes how Faulkner’s use of an increasingly heightened prose style moves his fiction closer to an expression of physicality and eroticism.
Simon Creak
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824838898
- eISBN:
- 9780824869724
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838898.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This introductory chapter examines how the ubiquity of physical practices in modern Laos demonstrates the extraordinary reach of physical culture in colonial and postcolonial societies and a global ...
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This introductory chapter examines how the ubiquity of physical practices in modern Laos demonstrates the extraordinary reach of physical culture in colonial and postcolonial societies and a global interconnectedness that belies the image of an isolated or “untouched” Laos. These practices have arisen from and shaped an ever-present concern with physicality, which has repeatedly been transformed by the cosmologies, epistemologies, and ideologies that have shaped modern Laos. Thus, the chapter takes a look at Lao history and historiography, the concepts of physicality and masculinity in culture, and—tying both subjects together—sport and physical culture in Laos. Finally, this chapter discusses how colonialism has promoted the physical culture in Laos.Less
This introductory chapter examines how the ubiquity of physical practices in modern Laos demonstrates the extraordinary reach of physical culture in colonial and postcolonial societies and a global interconnectedness that belies the image of an isolated or “untouched” Laos. These practices have arisen from and shaped an ever-present concern with physicality, which has repeatedly been transformed by the cosmologies, epistemologies, and ideologies that have shaped modern Laos. Thus, the chapter takes a look at Lao history and historiography, the concepts of physicality and masculinity in culture, and—tying both subjects together—sport and physical culture in Laos. Finally, this chapter discusses how colonialism has promoted the physical culture in Laos.
Simon Creak
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824838898
- eISBN:
- 9780824869724
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838898.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter looks at how the Lao People's Revolutionary Party's (LPRP) “revolution in culture and thought” aimed to build a “new socialist person” as a requisite factor for the construction of ...
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This chapter looks at how the Lao People's Revolutionary Party's (LPRP) “revolution in culture and thought” aimed to build a “new socialist person” as a requisite factor for the construction of socialism. Strong and healthy, the new socialist person was defined by physical as well as moral and behavioral characteristics, which would be produced by a mass sport and physical culture movement created for this purpose. In common with other socialist reforms, efforts to build a mass sport and physical culture movement aimed at producing the socialist person confronted insurmountable barriers. The official reports that document this failure nevertheless illustrate more fundamental consequences of the socialist obsession with physicality, as the regime privileged the corporeal over the intellectual and produced an entire cosmology of socialist change couched in physical metaphor and idiom.Less
This chapter looks at how the Lao People's Revolutionary Party's (LPRP) “revolution in culture and thought” aimed to build a “new socialist person” as a requisite factor for the construction of socialism. Strong and healthy, the new socialist person was defined by physical as well as moral and behavioral characteristics, which would be produced by a mass sport and physical culture movement created for this purpose. In common with other socialist reforms, efforts to build a mass sport and physical culture movement aimed at producing the socialist person confronted insurmountable barriers. The official reports that document this failure nevertheless illustrate more fundamental consequences of the socialist obsession with physicality, as the regime privileged the corporeal over the intellectual and produced an entire cosmology of socialist change couched in physical metaphor and idiom.
Simon Creak
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824838898
- eISBN:
- 9780824869724
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838898.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter discusses the implications of the 2009 25th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Vientiane, examining its historical context as well as the central paradox surrounding the games: the twin ...
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This chapter discusses the implications of the 2009 25th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Vientiane, examining its historical context as well as the central paradox surrounding the games: the twin themes of national glory and foreign investment. Although the event was immensely successful in projecting an image of national arrival, producing an unprecedented outbreak of popular nationalist sentiment under the LPRP, it was utterly dependent on foreign capital, sparking a controversy that defined the lead up to the event and genuinely seemed poised to undermine it. This paradox reflects broader antipathies in postsocialist Laos. The chapter then returns to the themes of sport, physical culture, and state power in Laos, reflecting on the evolving relationship between physicality and state power throughout the nation's history.Less
This chapter discusses the implications of the 2009 25th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Vientiane, examining its historical context as well as the central paradox surrounding the games: the twin themes of national glory and foreign investment. Although the event was immensely successful in projecting an image of national arrival, producing an unprecedented outbreak of popular nationalist sentiment under the LPRP, it was utterly dependent on foreign capital, sparking a controversy that defined the lead up to the event and genuinely seemed poised to undermine it. This paradox reflects broader antipathies in postsocialist Laos. The chapter then returns to the themes of sport, physical culture, and state power in Laos, reflecting on the evolving relationship between physicality and state power throughout the nation's history.
Mark Gallagher
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169813
- eISBN:
- 9780231850643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169813.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses Sylvester Stallone's 1981 films, Nighthawks and Victory. Nighthawks provides a view of Hollywood on the brink of a new global expansion. It also locates Stallone amid ...
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This chapter discusses Sylvester Stallone's 1981 films, Nighthawks and Victory. Nighthawks provides a view of Hollywood on the brink of a new global expansion. It also locates Stallone amid presumably complementary textual elements such as setting, genre signifiers, and other story — world attributes that suit his talents and existing persona. In contrast, Victory showcases the kinds of locations, casts, and storylines long associated with Hollywood internationalism during the late classical era. Building on the star template established through the Rocky films, Victory's promotion and publicity emphasize Stallone's physicality, and the film narrates his character's assimilation into European cultures, settings, and sports. In both films, casting choices, generic appeals, and narrative elements all indicate the industry's specific attempts to attract diverse viewership locally and internationally.Less
This chapter discusses Sylvester Stallone's 1981 films, Nighthawks and Victory. Nighthawks provides a view of Hollywood on the brink of a new global expansion. It also locates Stallone amid presumably complementary textual elements such as setting, genre signifiers, and other story — world attributes that suit his talents and existing persona. In contrast, Victory showcases the kinds of locations, casts, and storylines long associated with Hollywood internationalism during the late classical era. Building on the star template established through the Rocky films, Victory's promotion and publicity emphasize Stallone's physicality, and the film narrates his character's assimilation into European cultures, settings, and sports. In both films, casting choices, generic appeals, and narrative elements all indicate the industry's specific attempts to attract diverse viewership locally and internationally.
