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Cleary, Emma. "Jazz-shaped bodies : mapping city space, time, and sound in black transnational literature." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2014. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2205/.
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“Jazz-Shaped Bodies” addresses representations of the city in black transnational literature, with a focus on sonic schemas and mapping. Drawing on cultural geography, posthumanist thought, and the discourse of diaspora, the thesis examines the extent to which the urban landscape is figured as a panoptic structure in twentieth and twenty-first century diasporic texts, and how the mimetic function of artistic performance challenges this structure. Through comparative analysis of works emerging from and/or invested with sites in American, Canadian, and Caribbean landscapes, the study develops accretively and is structured thematically, tracing how selected texts: map the socio-spatial dialectic through visual and sonic schemas; develop the metaphorical use of the phonograph in the folding of space and time; revive ancestral memory and renew an engagement with the landscape; negotiate and transcend shifting national, cultural, and geographical borderlines and boundaries that seek to encode and enclose black subjectivity. The project focuses on literary works such as James Baldwin’s intimate cartographies of New York in Another Country (1962), Earl Lovelace’s carnivalising of city space in The Dragon Can’t Dance (1979), Toni Morrison’s creative blending of the sounds of black music in Jazz (1992), and the postbody poetics of Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond (2004), among other texts that enact crossings of, or otherwise pierce, binaries and borderlines, innovating portals for alternative interpellation and subverting racially hegemonic visual regimes concretised in the architecture of the city. An examination of the specificity of the cityscape against the wider arc of transnationalism establishes how African American, AfroCaribbean, and Black Canadian texts share and exchange touchstones such as jazz, kinesis, liminality, and hauntedness, while remaining sensitive to the distinct sociohistorical contexts and intensities at each locus, underscoring the significance of rendition — of body, space, time, and sound — to black transnational writing.
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Mulder, F. Adele. "Bodies and borders : space and subjectivity in three South African texts." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2444.
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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis interrogates the relationship between body, subjectivity and space in three antipastoral novels. The texts which I will be discussing, Karel Schoeman’s This Life, Anne Landsman’s The Devil’s Chimney and J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country, all foreground the female protagonist’s relationship to a specifically South African landscape in a colonial time-frame. The inter-relatedness between the body, subjectivity and space is explored in order to show that there is a shifting interaction between these registers in the novels. Arising from this interaction, the importance of perspective as a way of being in the world is foregrounded. The approach adopted in this study is based on the assumption that our experience depends upon how we make meaning of the world through our bodies as we encounter people, places and objects. The lived, embodied experience is always a subjective experience. The conceptual framework is derived broadly from psychoanalysis and phenomenology. My primary concern in this study is how marginal subject positions are explored in the space of the South African farm, which, traditionally, is an ideologically fraught locus of Afrikaner patriarchy and oppression. The novels are narrated by distinctive female voices, each speaking differently, but all having the effect of undermining and exposing the hegemony of the patriarchal farm space. In all three novels the question of genre is involved as forming the space of the text itself. The novels speak to the tradition of the plaasroman and the pastoral and, in doing so, open up a conversation with the past.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis word die verhouding tussen die liggaam, subjektiwiteit en ruimte ondersoek in drie romans wat teen die pastorale literêre tradisie spreek. Die betrokke romans is This Life deur Karel Schoeman, The Devil’s Chimney deur Anne Landsman en In the Heart of the Country deur J.M. Coetzee. Die romans speel af in ‘n koloniale tydperk waar die vroulike protagonis se verhouding met die Suid-Afrikaanse landskap op die voorgrond gestel word. Die verwantskap tussen die liggaam, subjektiwiteit en ruimte word ondersoek om die interaksie tussen hierdie drie konsepte ten toon te stel. Wat vanuit hierdie interaksie voortspruit is die ontologiese rol wat perspektief speel as wyse om met die wêreld te verkeer. Hierdie studie benader die romans vanuit die siening dat die mens se ervaring afhang van hoe hy/sy die wêreld verstaan deur die interaksie tussen die liggaam en ander mense, ruimtes en objekte. Die beliggaamde ervaring is dus ‘n subjektiewe ervaring. Die konsepsuele raamwerk van hierdie ondersoek is afgelei van psigoanalise en fenomenologie. Die kern van hierdie studie is om te ondersoek hoe die posisie van die randfiguur in die ruimte van die Suid-Afrikaanse plaas ten toon gestel word. Die plaas is tradisioneel ‘n ideologiese bestrede ruimte van Afrikaner patriargie en onderdrukking. Die romans word verhaal deur drie kenmerkende en verskillende vroulike stemme wat dien om die hegemonie van die patriargale opset op die plase te ondermyn en ontbloot. Die vraagstuk van genre is in al drie romans betrokke aangesien genre die ruimte van die teks self uitmaak. Die romans spreek teen die tradisie van die plaasroman en die pastorale roman en tree sodoende in gesprek met die verlede.
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Gard, Ron. "Bodies of Capital: Spatial Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195847.
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Positing subjectivity as a structural formation arising dialectically at the cultural intersection of physical bodies and material conditions, Bodies of Capital: Spatial Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction identifies textual dynamics as revelatory of the intrinsic relationship between subjective experience and spatial practice. To advance this formulation, Bodies of Capital critically examines a series of U.S. fictional narrative texts from the late nineteenth-century to the present by placing them in dialogue with comparative articulations of U.S. ‘regimes of accumulation’ (spatial formations enacting particular capital organization and conditions) as they developed during this same historical period. Such an approach allows critical analysis to be devoted to material and empirical developments, such as geographical (e.g., urban and suburban growth), institutional (e.g., corporations and markets), and societal (e.g., types of labor) formations, but at all times places primary focus, through its recognition of subjectivity as a spatial and ideological formation, on the practices and dynamics of signification to which these developments critically contribute. Bodies of Capital’s spatio-textual formulation thereby advances the critical enterprise by illuminating the ways in which fictional narrative texts inherently both speak and are spoken by cultural ideologies spatially active at a given time and place. Bodies of Capital allows one, as well, to draw connections otherwise by-andlarge occluded between fictional works appearing at distinctly different times and places across a broad historical expanse, an expanse reflected in the selection of works the dissertation comparatively examines, including William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham, Jack London’s Martin Eden, Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Sam Mendes’s American Beauty, Don DeLillo’s White Noise, and Richard Powers’s Gain.
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Mathieson, Charlotte Eleanor. "Bodies in transit : mobility, embodiment and space in the mid-nineteenth century novel." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/38323/.
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This thesis focuses on narratives of mobility in the mid-nineteenth century novel, analysing journeys within and between England and Europe in novels of the period 1845-65 by Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Braddon. I locate bodies in transit as crucial representational sites asserting that, in an era of capitalist modernity effecting immense transformations to space, mobile embodied subjects provide a locus through which spatial readjustments are mediated. The theoretical context for this analysis is provided by the fields of critical geography, feminist geography, and recent studies into travel and mobility; the intersection of these fields constructs a new theorisation of mobile embodied subjects. I read textual representations of bodies through this critical lens, using literary analysis to develop a more nuanced theorisation of the relationship between the body and space. The first chapter explores the changing production and understanding of space in the mid-nineteenth century, following which subsequent chapters each focus on a different travel context. Walking in the English countryside and the city (with focus on Adam Bede, Jane Eyre, and Villette) centres on issues of gender, mobility, and modernity; journeys across European spaces (Little Dorrit, Villette) explore anxieties about nationality and the stability of British place in a contracting global space; and railway journeys (Dombey and Son, Lady Audley’s Secret) position anxieties over modernity, and its implications for the human subject, at the forefront of concern. Through this analysis, I situate mobility as occupying a central position in midnineteenth century literature: a significant representational principle that is fundamental to the internal structures of novels and their interactions with wider cultural contexts. The thesis demonstrates that reading novels through spaces of mobility provides a perspective through which to significantly reorient our understanding of familiar literary texts.
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Kagawa, P. Keiko. "Bodies in the "house of fiction" : the architecture of domestic and narrative spaces by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061951.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 261-270). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Fonts, Maureen. "Lois-Ann Yamanaka's women : transcending the spaces of bodily contamination." FIU Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3490.
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This thesis examines key texts by Lois-Ann Yamanaka associated with women’s subservience in post-colonial Hawai’i. Her fiction situates the body naturalistically, but also uses the body to convey themes of spiritual redemption.
My analysis concentrates on three of Yamanaka’s novels: Blu’s Hanging (1997), Heads by Harry (1999), and Father of the Four Passages (2001). These three works thematically move from an emphasis on the fragmented body and segregated female, to a critique of colonialism, to an intangible spirituality where the characters reach physical and spiritual wholeness, and the dysfunctional family finds unity.
In each, Yamanaka uses sensory language that reinvents and reforms the female body, employing narrative techniques which move beyond traditional writing structures. I argue that these novels utilize brutal Images to highlight abjection, but that these images provide a means to imagine a space of spiritual healing and renewal.
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Heinkel, Polly Lynn. "12th NITE…WHATEVER: QUEERING AND (RE) GENDERING SHAKESPEARE’S PERFORMATVE SPACES, PLACES, AND BODIES IN TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1352140404.
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Radford, Laura E. "Accepting the Failure of Human and State Bodies: Interactions of Syphilis and Space in "Hamlet" and "The Knight of the Burning Pestle"." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1034.
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The purpose of this thesis is, first, to explore the presence and meaning of Foucault’s heterotopia within William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”and Beaumont and Fletcher’s “The Knight of the Burning Pestle.” The heterotopia is a privileged space of self-reflection created by individuals or societies in crisis. In each play, the presence of crisis is explained though the metaphor of syphilis; to which individual characters respond by entering the reflective space of the heterotopia in order to countenance and “cure” their afflictions. The second purpose of this thesis is to examine the ways in which the crises acted upon the stage reflect pressing social anxieties of late – Elizabethan and early- Jacobean England: succession to the throne and shifting market structure. Both playwrights create heterotopic space for their audience through the structure of their dramatic work, and ask their audience to enter this reflective space, and consider –and learn from – their remarks upon the state of society.
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Flynn, Warren. "Fragments of the moon (novel) ; and." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0073.
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Fragments of the Moon is a novel set mostly in South Korea, examining relationships between people, interpersonal spaces, architectural spaces and landscape through a cross-cultural context. Matt, a graduate architect from Perth, Australia, finds himself increasingly vulnerable to cultural confusion as he adjusts to life away from his home and friends. Having initially assumed that Seoul's western facade echoes its social dynamic, Matt increasingly discovers that the Confucianism which underpins much of contemporary Korean society makes all relationships far more complex than his assumptions had allowed. Together with a Canadian student who is seeking to find the essence of a different Korea through her investigation of Buddhism, and through meeting diverse Korean characters, readers will discover several of the many facets of contemporary Korean culture. Readers will be encouraged to test the slippery surfaces on which familiar and unfamiliar attitudes to bodies, landscape and created spaces rest. 'Body, Space, Ideas of Home: Cross-cultural Perspectives' (thesis) The thesis examines the interaction of body space, architectural space, landscape, and emotional states in contemporary literary fiction from several cultural perspectives. Bodies, landscapes, and architectural spaces are shown to be devices through which contemporary authors with different cultural backgrounds have expressed character and explored ideas, especially thematic concerns related to cultural or cross-cultural confusion or understanding. Notions of 'feeling at home' and 'being alien' are investigated through the work of authors who either have a cross-cultural heritage (e.g. Jhumpa Lahiri a Bengali/American), or who write about a culture which is not their own (e.g. Dianne Highbridge, an Australian writing about Japan). Several chosen authors explore the relationships between the spiritual and the physical, the metaphysical and the corporeal. These elements are particularly highlighted when examining the narratives of Tim Winton (The Riders, 1994) and Simone Lazaroo (The World Waiting To Be Made, 1994); and two of Japan's most popular writers, Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood, 2000) and Banana Yoshimoto (Lizard, 1995). For some writers, this exploration of spaces forms the focal point of their work; for others, it is an important facet of their narrative world, which helps to ground their writing for contemporary readers whose own backgrounds must also influence their understandings.
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Beljaars, Diana. "Geographies of compulsive interactions : bodies, objects, spaces." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/116060/.
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This doctoral thesis introduces compulsivity as an empirical, conceptual and theoretical phenomenon to human geography. Compulsivity as mobilised here is associated with the Tourette syndrome diagnosis, and can be understood as the performance of unwanted and unprecedented interactions that are experienced to be purposeless and meaningless in their response to unqualified urges. Drawing on and contributing to medical and clinical sciences of Tourette syndrome, geographies of medicalised performances and perception, as well poststructural and postphenomenological theories in cultural geography, it focuses on the performativity of compulsive interactions between affected bodies and their material environments. As urge-driven compulsions have received little to no scholarly attention, the study seeks to identify if and how a spatial approach could help understand these engagements. In turn, it explores how compulsivity as a principle could develop geography’s conceptualisations of person-place relations. The study then examines the ways in which bodily environments affect compulsive interactions, and how they are negotiated. It does so through in-depth semi-structured interviews, participant observations, and mobile eye-tracking in close collaboration with 15 participants. The study took place in the homes of the participants, shops, cars, public transport, natural areas, and schools in the Netherlands over an 8-month period. The outcomes reimagine compulsivity as choreographies between human bodies, objects and spaces that configure towards each other and form systems through dimensions they then come to share. Compulsive interactions constitute, affirm, and (re)stabilise these systems by elongating their durations in order for those affected to thrive. In their anticipation and performance of compulsions, they apply a plethora of spatial negotiation techniques. In addition to carving out a space for a compulsive approach to body-world formation beyond the Tourette syndrome diagnosis, this study develops a vitalist ethics for human geography to study medicalised performances. Furthermore, it proposes new ways for capacity building for, and integration in, academic research of those affected.
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Sellick, Jessica Lucy. "Animal geographies of cattle : bodies, spaces, ethics." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/89c595b0-e09b-4950-8632-8adc1c25000a.
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Averkov, Gennadiy. "Metrical Properties of Convex Bodies in Minkowski Spaces." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2004. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200401537.
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The objective of this dissertation is the application of Minkowskian cross-section measures (i.e., section and projection measures in finite-dimensional linear normed spaces over the real field) to various topics of geometric convexity in Minkowski spaces, such as bodies of constant Minkowskian width, Minkowskian geometry of simplices, geometric inequalities and the corresponding optimization problems for convex bodies. First we examine one-dimensional Minkowskian cross-section measures deriving (in a unified manner) various properties of these measures. Some of these properties are extensions of the corresponding Euclidean properties, while others are purely Minkowskian. Further on, we discover some new results on the geometry of a simplex in Minkowski spaces, involving descriptions of the so-called tangent Minkowskian balls and of simplices with equal Minkowskian heights. We also give some (characteristic) properties of bodies of constant width in Minkowski planes and in higher dimensional Minkowski spaces. This part of investigation has relations to the well known \emph{Borsuk problem} from the combinatorial geometry and to the widely used monotonicity lemma from the theory of Minkowski spaces. Finally, we study bodies of given Minkowskian thickness ($=$ minimal width) having least possible volume. In the planar case a complete description of this class of bodies is given, while in case of arbitrary dimension sharp estimates for the coefficient in the corresponding geometric inequality are foundDie Dissertation befasst sich mit Problemen fuer spezielle konvexe Koerper in Minkowski-Raeumen (d.h. in endlich-dimensionalen Banach-Raeumen). Es wurden Klassen der Koerper mit verschiedenen metrischen Eigenschaften betrachtet (z.B., Koerper konstante Breite, reduzierte Koerper, Simplexe mit Inhaltsgleichen Facetten usw.) und einige kennzeichnende und andere Eigenschaften fuer diese Klassen herleitet
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Oriol, Rachel Anne. "Bodies of Knowledge: Representations of Dancing Bodies in Latina Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595121438676286.
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Storment, Ryan Lee. "Other spaces, other voices heterotopic spaces in island narratives /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/storment/StormentR0507.pdf.
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Matthews, Evan. "Making Space: Disorientating bodies in trans and queer spaces of support." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Gender Studies, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8817.
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This thesis explores young people’s transgenderings through negotiations of language, bodies and experiences of different peer and community-based support spaces in Aotearoa New Zealand. It critically examines what ‘support’ means for young people in relation to developing subjectivities and embodiments shaped by being both young and transgender/ gender non-conforming. While these perspectives are varied, I argue that the production of community and peer-based support for those who are both young and transgender or gender non-conforming has been undergoing a period of significant change, reflecting queer and postmodern shifts which have worked to re-conceptualise the ways queer and transgender communities and peers are imagined, incorporating a greater inclusive focus on diversity. Utilising Sara Ahmed’s concept of queer phenomenology and post-structuralist theory, the thesis thinks beyond binary approaches to gender and support, to consider support and gender non-conformity through the process of ‘disorientation’. Throughout this project both ‘gender’ and ‘support’ are positioned as being subjective, embodied and discursive knowledges and actions, represented in multiple and contradictory ideas, identities and expressions of the different participants. The study utilises in-depth qualitative interviews with participants who are young people (aged 16-30 years) and support providers and developers of transgender/queer based support in Aotearoa New Zealand. Working with young people and support providers, this research provides an analysis of support development for transgender and gender non-conforming young people in Aotearoa New Zealand, arguing that all participants in support (both providers and recipients) are shaping its provision.
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Ganji, Iman [Verfasser]. "Performativity and the Altermodernities: Occupy, Bodies and Time-Spaces / Iman Ganji." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1227925972/34.
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Spirova, Margarita. "Discrete Geometry in Normed Spaces." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-62896.
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This work refers to ball-intersections bodies as well as covering, packing, and kissing problems related to balls and spheres in normed spaces. A quick introduction to these topics and an overview of our results is given in Section 1.1 of Chapter 1. The needed background knowledge is collected in Section 1.2, also in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2 we define ball-intersection bodies and investigate special classes of them: ball-hulls, ball-intersections, equilateral ball-polyhedra, complete bodies and bodies of constant width. Thus, relations between the ball-hull and the ball-intersection of a set are given. We extend a minimal property of a special class of equilateral ball-polyhedra, known as Theorem of Chakerian, to all normed planes. In order to investigate bodies of constant width, we develop a concept of affine orthogonality, which is new even for the Euclidean subcase. In Chapter 2 we solve kissing, covering, and packing problems. For a given family of circles and lines we find at least one, but for some families even all circles kissing all the members of this family. For that reason we prove that a strictly convex, smooth normed plane is a topological Möbius plane. We give an exact geometric description of the maximal radius of all homothets of the unit disc that can be covered by 3 or 4 translates of it. Also we investigate configurations related to such coverings, namely a regular 4-covering and a Miquelian configuration of circles. We find the concealment number for a packing of translates of the unit ball.
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Pappa, Joseph. "Carnal reading early modern language and bodies /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Morton, Katherine Jane Parker. "Anti-ageing and women's bodies : spaces, practices, and knowledges of cosmetic intervention." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16000.
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This thesis examines women’s responses to ageing through cosmetic intervention, as part of broader practices of health and wellbeing. The thesis identifies a lack of geographical attention to the embodied and emotional dimensions of the ageing process and the management and modification of bodies through anti-ageing body-work. In response to this the thesis contributes to existing feminist geographical approaches to embodied experience by addressing the multiple ways that women respond to, and negotiate, the pressures of gendered socio-cultural norms and expectations associated with the body. The embodied methodological approach I take focuses primarily on semi-structured in-depth interviews with practitioners and consumers of anti-ageing technologies and techniques, and participant observation in anti-ageing ‘treatment’ sites, including aesthetic clinics and beauty salons. Informed by corporeal feminism (Grosz, 1994) I use these approaches to engage with the fluidity and ‘fleshy materiality’ of bodies (Longhurst, 2001). In doing so I contribute to existing knowledges of gendered body-work and self-care practices, both empirically and theoretically. The thesis contributes significant new empirical data to the study of the ageing body, enabling reflexive discussion of theoretical approaches, as well as offering new perspectives on theoretical questions on the body and cosmetic intervention. Through analysis of the spaces, practices, and knowledges of anti-ageing body-work the thesis extends existing geographical approaches to emotion and embodiment, gender and identity, and health and wellbeing. I identify contradictions between the medical and therapeutic rationales of anti-ageing body-work, and the ways that such tensions are enacted through the spaces, practices and professional identities associated with ‘aesthetic health’ (Edmonds, 2010). I also develop analysis of anti-ageing body-work in terms of the ‘reframing’ and ‘realignment’ of corporeal temporalities, ‘anticipatory’ biopolitical frameworks of bodily futures, and the emotional context and consequences of the materialisation of time on the body. I also consider such practices in terms of regulation and control, highlighting the growing normalisation of cosmetic intervention as implicated in disciplinary frameworks of corporeal anxiety in relation to gendered framings of body image, risk and responsibility. Finally, I draw attention to a number of future directions in which this research could be developed.
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Mokhtar, Shehram. "Sacred Spaces and Expressive Bodies: At the Urs of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12956.
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The shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar is located in the rural city of Sehwan in Sindh, Pakistan. Sehwan is a site of pilgrimage for thousands of devotees at the annual festival known as urs, spanning three days to commemorate the death anniversary of the saint. Men, women, and transgender participants engage in many rituals at the urs among which the prominent is devotional dancing called dhamaal. This thesis project relates sacredness of spaces and hyper-reality of the festival with the performances of rituals that involve diverse publics. At the urs and otherwise, the shrine space provides devotees, largely poor, a collective non-verbal expression in the form of dhamaal. Dhamaal gives expression to the body in a society that does not normally encourage such expressions in the public sphere. This thesis argues that the Sufi discourse in Sehwan makes the body of a devotee an expressive body.
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Shimomura, Sachi. "Odd bodies and visible ends in medieval literature /." New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40999723n.
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Rinkart, Yvonne Kristin. "The production of airport space : the times, spaces and bodies of international aviation." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/f3347320-0c2d-490e-aa9c-2b53163d1442.
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This thesis investigates the production of airport space, and it puts a particular emphasis on its temporal, spatial and embodied characteristics. The first chapter is concerned with the work of architects and their production of representations of airport space. Building on in-depth interviews with architects, the chapter considers their use of drawings and computer models as well as their thinking about the sites where airports are located. The second chapter investigates the work of operational readiness experts, who design and test the spatial practices of the operations of new airport buildings. Making use of interviews with two operational readiness experts and my observations during terminal trials, the chapter is concerned with t he design of the trial process as well as the creation of individual trials. I investigate the scripting of volunteers to get at the understanding of the passenger as a user of airport space. The third chapter discusses the labour of cleaners and baggage handlers in maintaining airport space and enabling passengers’ movement. I interviewed union representatives, a ground handling expert and a health and safety expert to provide multiple perspectives on workers’ labour, as well as the physical consequences of their work. The fourth chapter is concerned with the impact of aircraft noise on neighbourhoods close to, and increasingly also at a distance from, airports. Building on interviews with activists and representatives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, I investigate how aircraft noise is measured and represented and how its geographies are perceived, navigated, and protested by inhabitants. Throughout, the thesis aims to create an understanding of the relations between the spatial and temporal characteristics of airport space, and their impacts on the multiple subjects of airport space.
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Gerdin, Göran. "Boys will be boys? Gendered bodies, spaces and dis/pleasures in Physical Education." Doctoral thesis, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-45615.
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In this thesis I argue that in order to change the social influence of dominant discourses of gender in PE, which have previously been subject to sustained critique, there is a need to examine the discourses that constitute pleasure within PE. Such an examination is justified due to the broad social significance of pleasure but specific absence of empirical investigations within PE. My prime research questions, accordingly, asked: (i) How do boys’ performances of gender in PE articulate with dis/pleasures? (ii) How are spaces and bodies implicated in these performances? These questions were answered via ethnographic data, generated through a participatory visual research approach (Pink, 2007), involving observations, video recordings, focus groups and individuals interviews, with 60 Year 10 (ages 14-15) boys participating in PE at a single-sex boys’ secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand. In order to interpret the visual and verbal data I utilised the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to explore how pleasures work as the productive effect of power (Foucault, 1985). The findings suggest that pleasures are produced in PE when boys perform gender in a way that typically conforms to discourses related to fitness, health, sport and masculinity. Beginning with a spatial analysis, I highlight how the boys derive pleasures from the power articulated in and through the performative spaces (Gregson & Rose, 2000) of PE. This exploration is extended further to a study of the discourses of PE that have co-produced these pleasures. Finally, the thesis demonstrates the materialisation (Butler, 1993) of pleasurable bodies within the discursive practices of boy’s PE. This thesis illustrates how boys’ performances of gender in PE can, correspondingly, be understood as a co-construction of pleasures, spaces and bodies, where each depends on the other so, that they are constituted reciprocally. I argue that this reciprocal constitution can be problematic as the gendered pleasures can ‘lock’ PE into ‘traditional’ forms that legitimate and produce inequitable sets of gendered power relations. That is, the discourses and relations of power in boys’ PE that produce certain pleasures can, at times, also induce dis/pleasures (e.g. as associated with exclusion, humiliation, bullying and homophobia). In sum, this thesis draws attention to pleasures as an educational, productive practice in boys’ PE while at the same time offering a critique of such pleasurable moments within this context. PE teachers need to be aware that they are not only enabling students’ experiences of pleasures, but they are also influential in (re)producing gendered understandings about the dis/pleasures of learning in, through and about movement in PE.
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Hetrick, Nicholas M. "Making Bodies Matter: Disability Narrative After the ADA." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306377901.
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Oswald, Dana M. "Indecent bodies gender and the monstrous in medieval English literature /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1116868190.
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Clark, Prentiss. "Literature as performance founding spaces for voice /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/630.
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Kerwin, Chelsea E. "Bodies at Their Most Violent." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1431004825.
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Kuppers, Petra. "Between embodiment and representation : performing bodies, freaks, filmdance." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300990.
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Hetzer, Maria. "Bodies of crisis : remembering the German Wende." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81941/.
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This project consists of a series of performance events presented under the title 'Bodies of Crisis' between 2011 and 2013 in the UK and Germany, an exhibition of objects, and textual commentary. The commentary reflects on the theoretical and practical underpinning of a performance model for the transcultural translation of memories of everyday life around 1989/90 (the Wende). In twentyseven interviews, East German women recollected their everyday during the transition from a socialist to a capitalist state. The material was developed in nonverbal performance to open up access points for a transcultural translation of experience involving creative practitioners. Tracing the intermedial translation process, the performance model, studio work, and exhibition are analysed. The suitability of the performance model for the transcultural mediation of social conflicts is scrutinised. With its emphasis on everyday, somatic practices, the project argues for reconsidering approaches to the historical experience of 1989. Including women with little liberating experience, it explores ways in which memories of 1989 impact upon 'the body'. The ‘industry of forgetting’ related to both the somatic and the everyday of 1989/90 is analysed, as is the cultural stereotyping at the heart of many German memory discourses. The study argues for the suitability of the embodied quotidian as a research perspective for evaluating how a political crisis (and concomitant discourses) is mapped onto the individual body and reflected upon. Centring on topics such as changes in sensory experience, body awareness and the pathological body of 1989, ambivalences of – and resistance to – change are considered as well as strategies for self-reinvention. The practice-as-research project created a performance frame that shows translation as event: a time-based, somatic and provisional agreement of all participants, supporting development of what Judith Butler has termed 'bodies of alliance' to engage with past experience and its impact on present concerns.
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Fore, Dana Yuen. "Masculinity, disability, and the literature of bodies on display /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Parish, Jane Alexandra Easton. "Bodies and spaces : doubt, ambiguity and the construction of identity in Dormaa - Ahenkro (Ghana)." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387344.
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Buse, Christina Eira. "Online @ home in retirement : situating computer and Internet use within bodies, spaces and biographies." Thesis, University of York, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14140/.
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This thesis examines how retirees make use of the Internet and computer technologies at home, as well examining the relation of these newer technologies to older Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in this sphere. It begins by reviewing previous research on older adults and Internet use, and highlighting gaps in this literature, including a lack of research on Internet use in everyday contexts, particularly the home, and a failure to situate experiences of Internet use in later life within experiences throughout the lifecourse. The importance of contextualising Internet use within `real' bodies and spaces is emphasised. Secondary data analysis was then used to examine wider patterns of Internet use among older people, and the relation Internet use in later life to living situation, lifestyle and demographic variables. Following this, the main methodology of the study involved gathering data using multiple qualitative interviews and time-use diaries, which were conducted with retirees in 17 UK households. The central argument drawn from this data is that computer and Internet use in later life need to be contextualised within the `embodied technobiographies' of individuals and cohorts. This contributes a unique perspective to discussions of age divisions, illustrating that they cannot simply be understood as the result of material and physiological changes in `old age', but as the outcome of struggles applying embodied technological competencies acquired over a lifetime to new technologies. It also has practical implications for policy makers, and illustrates the importance of practical methods of learning computing, and the importance of relating new technologies to earlier competencies and biographical interests. These findings, and the novel concept of `embodied technobiographies' developed in this thesis, also have broader implications for developing sociological theories of embodiment, technology, gender, ageing, generations and social change.
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Mandaville, Alison Marie. "Spelling violation : writing bodies from the margins /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9478.
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Scanlon, Julie. "Novel bodies : corporeality and textuality in contemporary women's fiction." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2003. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14749/.
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This thesis queries whether a relationship between bodies in texts and the narratology and stylistics of texts might be reconceived beyond metaphor. Specifically, it examines the textual politics arising from the representation of ambiguously-bounded bodies. Each of the four contemporary women's novels that I examine represents disorderly bodies in the first-person narrative voice, and the implications of this for considerations of identity, agency and feminism are considered. The thesis is divided into five chapters, the first introducing the reader to theories that frame the subsequent close textual analyses of the novels. Chapter One contextualizes my work in relation to the existing parameters of discussions of textual-corporeal relations and considers approaches to the ambiguously-bounded body and its symbolic function in society, ranging from the work of Mary Douglas and Mikhail Bakhtin to that of Susan Bordo and Julia Kristeva. In Chapter Two, the transsexual metamorph of Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve (1977) is examined in terms of its transformative properties and its relationship to intertextuality. The plural, fluid, lesbian bodies of Monique Wittig's The Lesbian Body (1973) are discussed in connection with the text's transitivity choices and manipulations of discourses, in Chapter Three. Chapter Four investigates the depiction of the ambiguously-gendered body of the narrator of Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body (1992) in comparison with the novel's depiction of sexed bodies through a discussion of concealment, cliche, synecdoche and focalization. Chapter Five examines the anorexic body of Jenefer Shute's Life-Size (1992) and the representation of its relationship to language on diegetic and narrative levels. In the Conclusion to the thesis, I indicate the ways in which taking a stylistic or narratological approach to textual-corporeal relations can be productive in illuminating textual politics, particularly from a feminist perspective.
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Mussari, Mark. "Farvens klang : color spaces in Strindberg, Branner, Dinesen, and Bjorneboe /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6588.
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Hannonen, L. (Lotta). "Dead pasts, undead futures:identity and memory in Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201610202932.
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In this thesis, I study the themes of identity and memory in Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies. Marion’s 2011 novel is an example of the paranormal romance genre: the novel’s plotline revolves around a romantic affair between a human and a paranormal being, a zombie. However, the story also illustrates its zombie protagonist’s quest for a lost personhood. The author explores issues of identity and memory through the macabre metaphor of death, which, however, is seen as a psychological rather than a physiological state. The zombie mythos has developed alongside western popular culture for the past century. The living dead have been used to illustrate various prominent issues in the public sphere, and their iterations have changed in response to globally remerkable events. Thus, the study of the zombie mythos is also study of contemporary culture. It is, however, unconventional that Marion’s novel is narrated from the point of view of a zombie. This inspired me to ask what is so special about the zombie mythos that makes readers wish to identify with the monstrous. The aim of this thesis is therefore to find meanings for the imagery of zombiedom in Warm Bodies and relate these to popular culture. The central research questions in this thesis are how identities are constructed in Warm Bodies and how memory contributes to the construction of identities. Moreover, I ask what, in the novel’s reality, defines zombiedom compared to humanness, or what traits are required for a character to classify as a living person. I approach the subject through the theoretical framework of memory studies, a multidisciplinary field of study that deals with various memory phenomena. I will use Paul Ricoeur’s phenomenology of memory as the basis of my classification, with some terminology from the realm of psychology. In my analysis, I move from the level of individual memory to the collective. My methods, on the other hand, rely on phenomenological analysis of the novel’s characters. Identities in Warm Bodies are constructed synchronically, diachronically and socially. The author challenges the synchronicity of identity by presenting a dualism of the body and the soul. However the mind-body problem is also issued on a more corporeal level, as consciousness and memory can be transmitted through corporeal means. The diachronic aspect of identity manifests as the characters use autobiographical reasoning to mend their broken identities and personal timelines. In the case of the zombies, their permanent amnesia has lead to a loss of identity. The zombies consume brains in order to acquire their victims’ personal memories and thus simulate forming social connections through cannibalism. However, the novel also presents less destructive ways of developing social bonds: collective memory can be formed through various media, such as text or music. Personhood in the novel is a matter of conscious effort: the past must be deliberately organized into meaningful wholes. Language, on the other hand, is an important signifier of personhood as it enables persons to form social bonds. The final person-making characteristic presented in the novel is imputability: the characters must assume responsibility of their past deeds in order to be forgiven. Forgiveness, on the other hand, is essential to leading a life as a person. One of the central functions of zombie imagery in Warm Bodies is therefore to illustrate the issues of changing identities in social contextsTässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastelen identiteetin ja muistin teemoja Isaac Marionin teoksessa Warm Bodies. Marionin 2011 ilmestynyt romaani edustaa paranormaalin romanssin lajityyppiä: sen keskiössä on romanttinen suhde ihmisen ja yliluonnollisen olennon, zombin, välillä. Romaani kuitenkin kuvaa laajasti myös päähenkilön identiteettityötä. Marion tutkii muistin ja identiteetin ongelmia kuoleman metaforan kautta. Kuolema nähdään romaanissa kuitenkin enemmän psyykkisenä kuin fyysisenä tilana. Zombimyytti on kehittynyt länsimaisen kulttuurin rinnalla lähes sata vuotta. Eläviä kuolleita on käytetty kuvittamaan mitä erilaisimpia aiheita kulttuurin saralla, ja zombimyytin muoto on muuttunut globaalisti merkittävien tapahtumien seurauksena. Zombimyytin tutkimus on siis yhtä lailla nykykulttuurin tutkimusta. Silti on poikkeuksellista, että Marionin teoksessa kerronta tapahtuu zombin näkökulmasta. Tämä inspiroi minua tutkimaan, mikä zombimyytissä saa lukijan haluamaan samaistua hirviöön. Tutkimukseni tarkoituksena onkin löytää merkityksiä zombikuvaston käytölle romaanissa sekä rinnastaa näitä populaarikulttuuriin. Tutkielmassa kysyn, miten identiteetti rakentuu Warm Bodies -teoksessa ja mikä on muistin funktio identiteettityössä. Lisäksi kysyn, mikä romaanin maailmassa määrittää zombin ihmiseen verrattuna, tai minkälaisia ominaisuuksia vaaditaan, jotta henkilöhahmo voidaan luokitella ihmiseksi. Lähestyn aihettani muistintutkimuksen (memory studies) näkökulmasta. Muistintutkimus on monitieteinen tutkimusala, joka tutkii monenlaisia muistin ilmiöitä. Pohjana työlleni käytön Paul Ricoeurin muistin fenomenologiaa, mutta hyödynnän myös psykologian termistöä. Analyysissäni siirryn yksilön tasolta kohti kollektiivista muistia. Tutkimusmetodini on henkilöhahmojen fenomenologinen analyysi. Marionin romaanissa identiteetit ovat synkronisia, diakronisia ja sosiaalisia. Teoksessa kehon ja mielen dualismi haastaa identiteetin synkronisuutta. Toisaalta kehon ja mielen ongelmaa tarkastellaan myös korporeaalisemmalla tasolla, sillä tietoisuutta ja muistia voidaan teoksessa välittää myös ruumiillisesti. Identiteetin diakroninen puoli ilmenee, kun teoksen henkilöhahmot rakentavat identiteettejään narratiivin kautta. Zombien tapauksessa muistinmenetys on johtanut myös identiteetin menetykseen. Zombit syövät aivoja saadakseen itselleen uhriensa muistot ja käyttääkseen niitä omien identiteettiensä rakentamisessa. Toisaalta kannibalismin kautta pyritään simuloimaan kommunikaatiota ja sosiaalisia suhteita. Romaanissa kuitenkin esitetään myös rakentavampia tapoja muodostaa suhteita: muistia voidaan välittää myös esimerkiksi tekstin tai musiikin kautta. Identiteetti romaanissa vaatii tietoista yritystä: menneisyys täytyy järjestää merkityksellisiksi kokonaisuuksiksi. Kieli puolestaan määrittelee henkilöyttä, koska se mahdollistaa toimimisen sosiaalisissa konteksteissa. Kenties keskeisin henkilön ominaisuus teoksessa on vastuun ottaminen menneisyydestä ja omista toimista, sillä se mahdollistaa anteeksiannon. Anteeksianto puolestaan on välttämätön ehto ihmisyydelle. Yksi zombikuvaston keskeisistä funktioista teoksessa onkin kuvittaa muuttuvan identiteetin ongelmaa sosiaalisissa konteksteissa
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Fridriksdottir, Johanna Katrin. "Women, bodies, words and power : Women in old Norse literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527305.
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Boyne, Jeannette. "From the domestic to the demented : women, men, bodies, literature." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394386.
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Nakamura, Miri. "Monstrous bodies : gender and reproductive science in modern Japanese literature /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Dokko, Misun Michelle. "Dirty bodies filth and marginal characters in Asian American literature /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8500.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Henson, Chelsea, and Chelsea Henson. "Between Animals and Angels: Rethinking Extracategorical Bodies in Medieval Literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12439.
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Medieval bodies often push against easy categorization. Hybrids, saints, giants, and transformative bodies are represented in literature as falling between or occupying multiple taxonomic hierarchical positions of divine, human, or animal.10000-01-01
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Ghosal, Torsa. "Books with Bodies: Experientiality in post-1980s Multimodal Print Literature." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1495399434096337.
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Counsell, Colin Jeffrey. "Contested spaces : discourses of the modern British theatre." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357183.
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Lazley, Christopher Paul. "Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8945.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92).The notion of place as something at once geographic, socio-cultural and psychological is a ubiquitous concern in the novels of Zakes Mda. It is surely not by chance that Mda's interest in the novelistic form, which materialised in the publication of Ways of Dying in 1995, was roughly coincident with South Africa's fledgling democracy a year earlier. The end of apartheid meant the opportunity of exploring new forms of cultural discourse untrammeled by the intense politicisation of art that had tended to collapse the literary with the didactic in rather one-dimensional ways. Mda's consideration of place, this thesis argues, is one instance of such an exploration. More specifically, it examines the intersection of the social and the spatial in two of his novels: Ways of Dying and The Heart of Redness. Starting at the junction of race, politics and literature, it moves into how the country's changing physical and political boundary lines have effected new ways of relating to its spaces. The focus of the Ways of Dying chapter is on urban space, where migrants and settled urbanites must reconcile the rather fragmented and cosmopolitan character of the city.
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Steele, Warren Donald. "Body of glass : cybernetic bodies and the mirrored self." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/163/.
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This thesis examines the ontology of the cyborg body and the politics inherent to cultural manifestations of that image, and focuses on the links between glass and human-machine integration, while tracing the dangerous political affinities that emerge when such links are exposed. In the first chapter, the cyborg’s persistent construction as a cultural Black Box is uncovered using the theories of Bruno Latour and W. Ross Ashby. It examines why the temptation to explore the cyborg solely through close readings of contemporary incarnations leads only to confusion and misreading. The second chapter builds on the work of the first by placing the cyborg within its proper historical context, and provides a detailed examination of the period in which the cyborg was not only named, but also transformed into a physical possibility with an existent political agenda. It then investigates the phallogocentricity, hyper-masculinity, and inherent racism of the cyborg body, and demonstrates how representations of human-machine integration reinforce the pre-existing racist, hetero-normative, patriarchal hegemony of the Cold War. The discussion then explores the issue of the emergent property in the cyborg body; specifically, the figure’s persistent construction as a ‘body of glass.’ It demonstrates how cyborgs are not only associated with objects like the mirror, but also how that figure is tied to visual motifs such as the double or doppelganger. Accordingly, the theories of Jacques Lacan are employed to elucidate the issues that arise when one of the most pervasive images in Western culture also doubles as a reflector. The final chapter seeks to expand upon the framework provided by Lacan, and examines the cyborg not as a mirror, but as a portal. Subsequently, this section challenges not only the cyborg’s current status as a posthuman figure, but also current theoretical assumptions which frame the cyborg as the point of transition from humanism to posthumanism.
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Landry, Olivia Ryan. "The female corpse: sacrificed bodies of Enlightenment tragedy and Nazi cinema." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22047.
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This thesis approaches the topic of feminine representation through comparative readings of two eighteenth-century Enlightenment tragedies, G. E. Lessing's Emilia Galotti (1772) and Charlotte von Stein's Dido (1794), as well as two twentieth-century Nazi films, Leni Riefenstahl's The Blue Light (1932) and Veit Harlan's Jew Süss (1940). In addition to the obvious diachronic dimension of this project, my framework for examination is thematically structured. Drawing on numerous theories and secondary sources, I will investigate these texts under three specific topics – namely, female sexuality, female sacrifice, and finally, the female corpse. All three chronologically represent the junctures of the rhetorical instrumentalization and abuse of the female body in these texts. In light of this, the thesis seeks to thus reveal not only the unexpected diachronic parallels between the texts and therefore between the Enlightenment and the Nazi period, but more importantly, it seeks to reinterrogate hitherto accepted readings of these texts vis-à-vis feminine representation.Ce mémoire aborde le sujet de la représentation de la femme à travers des lectures comparatives de deux tragédies de l'époque de les Lumières, Emilia Galotti (1772) de G. E. Lessing et Dido (1794) de Charlotte von Stein, ainsi que de deux films nazis, La lumière bleue (1932) de Leni Riefenstahl, et Juif Süss (1940) de Veit Harlan. Outre la dimension diachronique évidente de ce projet, ma recherche est organisée par thèmes. En me référant à plusieurs théories et sources secondaires, j'explore ces œuvres en me concentrant sur trois thèmes spécifiques : la sexualité féminine, le sacrifice féminin et finalement le cadavre féminin. Ces trois thèmes illustrent les étapes de l'instrumentalisation et de l'abus rhétoriques du corps féminin dans ces œuvres. Ce mémoire révèle donc ainsi non seulement les parallèles diachroniques imprévues entre les œuvres, et, donc, entre les Lumières et le Nazisme, mais, de façon plus significative, ce mémoire remet en question les interprétations que l'on a faites de ces œuvres quant à la représentation de la femme.
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Sawday, Jonathan Hugh. "Bodies by art fashioned : anatomy, anatomists, and English Poetry 1570-1680." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1988. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317606/.
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The thesis explores the way in which anatomical discussion of the human body in the period c.1570-c.1680 informs a range of 16th and 17th century poetic texts. It begins with an account of the study of anatomy in England in the years between the publication of Vesalius' observations of the body and the appearance of Harvey's ideas on the circulation of the blood in 1628, and argues that the language, the religious significance, the practice, and the patterns of symbolism in the Renaissance anatomy lesson were all factors which were well understood by poets as diverse as Spenser, Sir John Davies, John Davies of Hereford, and, above all, Donne. The style of enquiry which was fostered by anatomists, and in particular the methodological problems associated with the dissection of the human body, are traced in anatomical text-books of the period, in theological writing, and in the work of the "Encyclopaedic" authors of the 16th century: Ambroise Paré, Phillipe de Mornay, and Pierre de la Primaudaye. The poetry of Phineas Fletcher, in particular his epic poem The Purple Island (1633), represents the climax of this conjunction between anatomical and poetic discourse. An extended discussion of this poem shows it to be an attempt at transforming the language and practice of anatomy into a means of expressing religious, political, and methodological confrontation. Fletcher's poem can be understood not as an incongruous fusion of poetry and science, but as an extended rehearsal of a well-established tradition of poetic accounts of the body discernable in the writings of Spenser and Donne, and in the poetic anatomization found in Sylvester's translation of the Divine Weekes of Du Bartas. Fletcher's poem is, however, virtually the last attempt at exploring this tradition. With the single exception of Joseph Beaumont's Psyche (1648), which is discussed in relation to The Purple Island, the history of anatomy and poetry is now one of disjunction. This theme is considered in the second half of the thesis. The replacement of intellectual systems of enquiry based on an understanding of "correspondence" by "mechanistic" accounts of the body is held to be at the root of the fracture between anatomists and poets. The language of figures such as Ross, Van Helmont, Harvey, Willis, Collins, and Charleton, together with the work of the theoreticians of language associated with the early years of The Royal Society, are compared to older styles of anatomic writing to reveal poetic accounts of the human body to be indebted to increasingly anachronistic images and ideas. After Harvey's work has become generally known in England it appears that poets such as Thomas Randolph, Margaret Cavendish, and John Collop resort to a language which is no longer the shared preserve of the scientist and the poet. This break-down of shared assumptions results in the transfer of attention, on the part of the poets, from the body itself to the scientist who explores the body. In the writings of Cowley, Dryden, and Jane Barker, the scientist emerges as a central figure. Imagined as a new Apollo, a heroic discoverer, his strangest transformation is that whereby he is imagined as the microcosmic voyager and narrator of the body. The displacement of the body from poetry is, however, challenged in the writings of Thomas Traherne. The final chapter of the thesis (which functions as a conclusion to the study as a whole) argues that, in Traherne's poetry and prose, an attempt at synthesizing the poetic and the scientific understanding of the body is discernable. Traherne's writings are discussed in the context of both the Royal Society's pronouncements on language and the work of the group with which he has been most closely'associated - the Cambridge Platonists. What is revealed is that Traherne is not (as has often been claimed) an Intellectual "conservative", but rather he asserts the view that fideism and rationalism can be harmonized under a system in which the anatomist and the poet once more share a common task.
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Giuliana, Chiara. "Negotiating home spaces : spatial practices in Italian postcolonial literature." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9764.
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Bruhm, Steven. "Gothic bodies : the politics of pain in romantic fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39416.
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In the ideology of sentimentalism, physical sensation integrates the parts of the body into a whole, and the fragmented members of the body politic into a social community. However, intense pain is always an individual experience. It not only isolates us from other people, but is also isolates us from our own bodies: pain renders our bodies out of control. Moreover, pain attacks our very notion of self by threatening to render us unconscious, and unable to perceive that self. This complex of problems became especially acute for late eighteenth-century writers, as they tried to reconcile their sympathy for the French Revolution with the intense pain that the Revolution signified. What they articulated was a process by which the self initially identifies with the pained body of the other, but then appropriates that pain to make it one's own, thereby isolating the self from infectious Revolutionary sympathies.
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Temiz, Ayse Deniz. "Gens inconnus political and literary habitations of postcolonial border spaces /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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