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Somatic Criticism Project

Adam Dziadek author Ryszard Nycz editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:31st Aug '18

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This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a general sign theory and in the medical sense as «symptomatology»). The author seeks to derive a more general principle from these two words, referring to the representation of experience in different literary texts. If we are talking about the representation of experience, we cannot, by any means, ignore the body that becomes the essential point of reference for human experience. This general principle aims at creating a matter of concept, a somatic criticism project, which is closely related to the issue of rhythm in literary texts - a rhythm understood as an intermediary between the body and the sense of the text.

ISBN: 9783631674284

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 367g

226 pages

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