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1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Introduction / Dominic Montserrat -- pt. 1. Perfect bodies, imperfect bodies: Disabling bodies / Nicholas Vlahogiannis. The dynamics of beauty in classical Greece / Richard Hawley -- pt. 2. Bodies and signs in Latin literature: Exuvias effigiemque : Dido, Aeneas and the body as sign / Angus Bowie. Bodies in flux : Ovid's Metamorphoses / Penelope Murray -- pt. 3. Modifying the early Christian body: Bodies and blood : Late Antique debate on martyrdom, virginity and resurrection / Gillian Clark. Reading the disjointed body in Coptic : from physical modification to textual fragmentation / Terry Wilfong -- pt. 4. The ancient body's trajectory through time: The irresistible body and the seduction of archaeology / Lynn Meskell. Unidentified human remains : mummies and the erotics of biography / Dominic Montserrat. Nacktleben / Jane Stevenson. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Human body -- History -- Social aspects.
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Human body. |
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History. |
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Social aspects. |
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Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Ancient. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Montserrat, Dominic, 1964-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Changing bodies, changing meanings. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 0415135842 (DLC) 97002928 (OCoLC)36457989 |
| ISBN |
0585452970 (electronic book) |
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9780585452975 (electronic book) |
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0203436679 (electronic book) |
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9780203436677 (electronic book) |
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9780415135849 (hardcover) |
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0415135842 (hardcover) |
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