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The Tremulous Private Body: Essays on Subjection
An ambitious study of literary, aesthetic, and philosophical authors on the modern subject versus the modern body
120 pages, Hardcover
First published December 20, 1984
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October 9, 2018
I came across this book via http://davidholtonline.com where he speaks about it extensively in his essay on Measure for Measure in Theatre and Behaviour - which is available on the website http://davidholtonline.com/article/th...#
Holt’s Reading clarifies Barker’s book in a way that makes it much more accessible and its importance then shines through. It really does point up the enormous changes between how the human body was understood before and after the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - as Barker says: the Word made Flesh became the flesh made word!
Holt’s Reading clarifies Barker’s book in a way that makes it much more accessible and its importance then shines through. It really does point up the enormous changes between how the human body was understood before and after the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - as Barker says: the Word made Flesh became the flesh made word!
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