The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe
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The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe (1997)is a book by David A. Hillman and Carla Mazzio.
- "Mikhail Bakhtin suggestively adopts just this vocabulary in the few pages he devotes to the blazon: he speaks of "its dual fact, complete ambivalence, ..."
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- "An examination of how the body--its organs, limbs, and viscera--were represented in the literature and culture of early modern Europe. This provocative volume demonstrates, the symbolism of body parts challenge our assumptions about "the body" as a fundamental Renaissance image of self, society, and nation."
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