GERMANENGLISH

Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe

By Marianne Henn , Holger A. Pausch

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2003
ISBN
9042010762, 9789042010765
Language
germanenglish
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12958068 bytes)
Series
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik; 55
Edition
1
Pages
437\438
Time added
2024-05-19 05:25:28

Description

In opposition to an essentialist conceptualization, the social construct of the human body in literature can be analyzed and described by means of effective methodologies that are based on Discourse Theory, Theory of Cultural Transmission and Ecology, System Theory, and Media Theory. In this perspective, the body is perceived as a complex arrangement of substantiation, substitution, and omission depending on demands, expectations, and prohibitions of the dominant discourse network. The term Body-Dialectics stands for the attempt to decipher – and for a moment freeze – the web of such discursive arrangements that constitute the fictitious notion of the body in the framework of a specific historic environment, here in the Age of Goethe.

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