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Title Presence of the body : awareness in and beyond experience / edited by Gert Hofmann, Snježana Zorić.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 272 pages).
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Series Consciousness, literature and the arts ; volume 50
Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 50.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Presentation and Performance -- 1. Bodies and Their Matter / Leonida Kovac -- 2. Losing the Plot: Inappropriate Fictions and the Art of the Theatre / Franc Chamberlain -- 3. Examining Body Limits / Milica Ivic -- 4. Ritualised Corporeality in Contemporary Croatian Art / Josip Zanki -- pt. 2 Act of Writing -- 5. Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales / Lidija Strmelj -- 6. Lost in Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof's Body in Poetry / Karin Bauer -- 7. Foreign Language -- Foreign Body: The Embodiment of Sprachfremde in Dimitre Dinev's Engelszungen and Terezia Mora's Alle Tage / Anja K. Seder -- 8. Putting Hell on Paper: Chronic Pain Patients and the Challenge of Illness Narratives / Elisa Primavera-Levy -- 9. Neuroethical Reflections on Body and Awareness in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Ian McEwan's Saturday / Sara Straub -- 10. Self, Interrupted: Body, Awareness, and Continuity in Oliver Sacks's A Leg to Stand On / Tanja Reiffenrath -- 11. Performances in the Anthropocene: Embodiment and Environment(s) in Ilija Trojanow's Climate Change Novel / Sabine Wilke -- 12. Disintegrating Identities: Bodily Presence in Contemporary Writing / Gert Hofmann -- pt. 3 Experience of Self-Transcendence -- 13. Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies / Graham Parkes -- 14. Silent Performance of Mindfulness: Aware Corporeality / Corporeal Awareness of No-Self / Snjezana Zoric.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Human body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Human beings in art.
Human beings in art.
Human body in mass media.
Human body in mass media.
Human body (Philosophy)
Human body (Philosophy)
Human body -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hofmann, Gert, 1958- editor.
Zorić, Snježana, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Presence of the body. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017] 9789004328754 (DLC) 2016039609 (OCoLC)963439334
ISBN 9004334742 (electronic book)
9789004334748 (electronic book)
9789004328754 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9004328750 (hardcover alkaline paper)