The Body Fantastic

Author : Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262365685
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body Fantastic written by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious and the fabulous to our conception of the body. He chronicles, among other curious cases, the man who ate everything (including boiled hedgehogs and mice on toast), the therapeutic powers of saliva, hair that burst into flames, and an "amphibian man" who lived under water. Drawing on clinical records, popular lore, and art, history, and literature, Gonzalez-Crussi considers the body in both real and imaginary dimensions. Myths and stories, Gonzalez-Crussi reminds us, are the symbolic expression of our aspirations and emotions. These fantastic tales of bodies come from the deepest regions of the human psyche. Ancient Greeks, for example, believed that the uterus wandered around inside a woman's body--an "animal within an animal." If a woman sniffed an unpleasant odor, the uterus would retreat. Organized "digestive excess" began with the eating and drinking contests of antiquity and continue through the hot-dog eating competitions of today. And the "libido-podalic association," connecting male sexuality and the foot, insinuated itself into mainstream medicine in the sixteenth century; meanwhile, the feet of women in some cultures were scrupulously kept from view. Gonzalez-Crussi shows that the many imaginary representations of the body are very much a part of our corporeality.

Author : Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262045885
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body Fantastic written by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious and the fabulous to our conception of the body. He chronicles, among other curious cases, the man who ate everything (including boiled hedgehogs and mice on toast), the therapeutic powers of saliva, hair that burst into flames, and an "amphibian man" who lived under water. Drawing on clinical records, popular lore, and art, history, and literature, Gonzalez-Crussi considers the body in both real and imaginary dimensions. Myths and stories, Gonzalez-Crussi reminds us, are the symbolic expression of our aspirations and emotions. These fantastic tales of bodies come from the deepest regions of the human psyche. Ancient Greeks, for example, believed that the uterus wandered around inside a woman's body--an "animal within an animal." If a woman sniffed an unpleasant odor, the uterus would retreat. Organized "digestive excess" began with the eating and drinking contests of antiquity and continue through the hot-dog eating competitions of today. And the "libido-podalic association," connecting male sexuality and the foot, insinuated itself into mainstream medicine in the sixteenth century; meanwhile, the feet of women in some cultures were scrupulously kept from view. Gonzalez-Crussi shows that the many imaginary representations of the body are very much a part of our corporeality.

Author : Windsor Chorlton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844035007
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Body written by Windsor Chorlton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internal workings of the human body may be familiar to doctors, but most would consider exposed organs, tendons and glands to be unattractive. This book utilises the latest photographic technology in order to capture amazing images from within the body, turning anatomy into art.

Author : David Bodanis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body Book written by David Bodanis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronnie Bailie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004486968
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fantastic Anatomist written by Ronnie Bailie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compact but highly concentrated study, the author unites clinical and literary critical skills in an attempt to go beyond familiar psychological commentary on Henry James and conduct a detailed and rigorous psychoanalytic investigation into recurring and psychologically significant patterns in his major and minor fiction. Drawing freely on material from notebooks, letters, and other biographical sources, the volume centres on James's unconscious fantasies concerning the human body, mostly the damaged or incomplete human body. These core fantasies are firmly placed at the root of James's creativeness. While one of these fantasies of physical mutilation finds expression in the famous “obscure hurt” of James's late teens, the author develops a hypothesis concerning their much earlier history and their place in the larger psychological constellation of the James family. Accordingly, Henry James Senior, his wife Mary, together with William and Alice James, all figure largely in the intricate and perilous family context of Henry's creative activity. This book also includes original factual research, casting sidelights on matters such as the relation between James's early work and that of Dr Silas Weir Mitchell, and on the early history of psychoanalysis in the United States, including William James's meeting with Freud and his view of early psychoanalytic thinking, and Henry's contact as a patient with early psychoanalytic practitioners at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Author : Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786496193
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fantastic Made Visible written by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy and science fiction began in print, and from the first films to the latest blockbusters, print stories have provided the inspirations, the ideas, and in some cases the detailed blueprints. Adaption Studies has long been an area of intense debate in literature and film studies, but no single work has ever approached fantasy and science fiction texts as unique and important areas of inquiry by themselves. The Fantastic Made Visible with 16 fresh essays is the first book to do exactly that. From the earliest adaptations of Jules Verne, Robert A. Heinlein, and Shakespeare to recent films based on The Hobbit, Planet of the Apes, and The Hunger Games, this book offers a wide range of critical approaches and films from around the world.

Author : R. G. Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832696
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film written by R. G. Young and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years in the making, and destined to be the last word in fanta-film references! This incredible 1,017-page resource provides vital credits on over 9,000 films (1896-1999) of horror, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, heavy melodrama, and film noir. Comprehensive cast lists include: directors, writers, cinematographers, and composers. Also includes plot synopses, critiques, re-title/translation information, running times, photographs, and several cross-referenced indexes (by artist, year, song, etc.). Paperback.

Author : Regina Hansen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487240
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film written by Regina Hansen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection of religious practice and theatricality has long been a subject of interest to scholars. This collection of twenty-two critical essays addresses the relationship between Roman Catholicism and films of the fantastic, which includes the genres of fantasy, horror, science fiction and the supernatural. The collection covers a range of North American and European films from Dracula and other vampire movies to Miracle at Fatima, The Exorcist, Danny Boyle's Millions, The Others, Maurice Pialat's Sous le Soleil de Satan, the movies of Terry Gilliam and George Romero's zombie series. Collectively, these essays reveal the durability and thematic versality of what the authors term the "Catholic fantastic."

Author : John Whiteman
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 184850862X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 9 Days to Feel Fantastic written by John Whiteman and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time that you felt truly happy? Free, joyful, at peace with yourself and everything around you, enjoying every second for what it was? Now imagine what it would be like if you could experience those feelings all the time, and not just in passing moments or special circumstances. With this book, and in just nine days, you can. Containing all the elements needed for daily balance and positive forward momentum, 9 Days to Feel Fantastic is a practical step-by-step guide that will take you on a fabulous journey to a more energetic and fulfilled way of living that will stay with you forever. For nine days you will be introduced to a new element each day and by following a simple plan and doing the exercises provided, you will easily incorporate these elements into your life. By using these nine simple but effective elements as tools to self-regulate your energy and emotions, you will start to experience how they create happiness from the inside out. Progressively you will incorporate five elements for emotional balance and three elements to give you momentum. The ninth element encapsulates all the elements and helps you learn the art of being present.

Author : C. Harvey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137306041
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Transmedia written by C. Harvey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly user-generated content to captivate and energise contemporary audiences.