The Body and the Arts

The Body and the Arts focuses on the dynamic relation between the body and the arts: the body as inspiration, subject, symbol and medium. Contributors from a variety of disciplines explore this relation across a range of periods and art forms, spanning medicine, literature from the classical period to the present, and visual and performing arts.

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; C. Saunders, U. Maude and J. Macnaughton PART I: THINKING THE BODY Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons of Classical Beauty; G. Boys-Stones Body as Graced or Vile: Tensions in the Christian Vision; D. Brown The Smoke of the Soul: Anatomy, Medical Spirits and the Rete Mirabile: 1538-1643; R. Sugg The Fizziness Business; S. Connor Flesh Revealed: Medicine, Art and Anatomy; J. Macnaughton PART II: WRITING THE BODY The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in English Medieval Literature; C. Saunders Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back from the Dead; F. O'Gorman Modernist Bodies: Coming to Our Senses; U. Maude Writing the Body: Modernism and Postmodernism; P. Waugh Detective Fiction and the Body; P. D. James (in conversation with C. Saunders) PART III: VIEWING THE BODY Pygmalion, Painted Flesh, and the Female Body; M. Postle Satyrs, Harpies, Jellyfish, and Mutants: Ovidian Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art; M. Warner Body, Space, Time; A. Gormley Une écriture corporelle: The Dancer in the Text of Mallarmé and Yeats; S. Jones The Erotic and the Sacred Body in Opera: the Venusberg to Monsalvat and beyond; D. Fuller Celluloid Formaldehyde? The Body on Film; J. Buchanan Index