New essays on life writing and the body
Auteur :
Stuart, Christopher
ISBN :
9781443805001
Date de publication :
1 mai 2009
Dimensions :
21,2 x 14,8 cm
Poids :
1451 g
Format :
With dust jacket
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In light of materialist revisions of the Cartesian dual self and the increased recognition of memoir and autobiography as a crucial cultural index, the physical body has emerged in the last twenty-five years as an increasingly inescapable object of inquiry, speculation, and theory that intersects all of the various subgenres of life writing.