The flesh made word : female figures and women's bodies / Helena Michie.

By:

Michie, Helena

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.Description: 1 online resource (179 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1423764226
9781423764229
1601297459
9781601297457
128052426X
9781280524264

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flesh made word.DDC classification:

820.9/3522 22

LOC classification:

PR468.W6 M5 1987eb

Other classification:

71.31

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Summary: Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy, Michie discusses the codes and taboos which distance the reader from the female body, allowing 'safe' bodily parts - like hands - and 'safe' physical activities - like eating - to stand for other, unspeakable aspects of female physicality. She reveals how these codes function as safe textual spaces for the entrance of the seemingly excluded female body, and shows that in the stylized discourses of synecdoche, euphemism, physiognomy, and metaphor lie the possibilities of their own subversion.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.

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Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy, Michie discusses the codes and taboos which distance the reader from the female body, allowing 'safe' bodily parts - like hands - and 'safe' physical activities - like eating - to stand for other, unspeakable aspects of female physicality. She reveals how these codes function as safe textual spaces for the entrance of the seemingly excluded female body, and shows that in the stylized discourses of synecdoche, euphemism, physiognomy, and metaphor lie the possibilities of their own subversion.

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