1st Edition

Corporeality and Culture Bodies in Movement

By Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren Copyright 2015
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

The ’material turn’ in critical theory - and particularly the turn towards the body coupled with scientific insights from biomedicine, biology and physics - is becoming an important path in fields of humanities-based scholarly inquiry. Material and technological philosophies play an increasingly central role in disciplines such as literary studies, cultural studies, history, performance and... Read more

Corporeality and Culture

Biography

Karin Sellberg, University of Queensland, Australia, Lena WÃ¥nggren, University of Edinburgh, UK and Kamillea Aghtan, Independent Scholar.

"This integration work, undoubtedly necessary in the face of the sheer diversity of methodologies, disciplinary emphases, and themes, certainly pays off. Corporeality and Culture serves as a useful primer for readers wishing to take in the impressive breadth and depth of contemporary approaches to corporeality, while it also updates experts on fresh lines of inquiry developed by an eclectic and international group of scholars."
Doreen Thierauf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in British Society for Literature and Science