An Icon and a Burden: The Postmodern Obsession with the Body in British Fiction
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
An Icon and a Burden: The Postmodern Obsession with the Body in British Fiction
Original language description
The article presents a survey of a number of contemporary British novels to hightlight the omnipresence of the human body in postmodern culture. The shapes and roles vary: from the iconic body - teasing, sexy, lascivious, to the fantastic, scientific body - an expression of concerns with the misuse of science, to the body perceived as a burden - hateful, tired, a weight to be discarded. The scale is not intended to imply a development, but to show how intensively contemporary fiction grapples with the ideas involved.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
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Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2009
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Marta Fernández Morales (eds.)
ISBN
978-3-631-57269-6
Number of pages of the result
10
Pages from-to
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Number of pages of the book
200
Publisher name
Peter Lang
Place of publication
Frankfurt am Main
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