Presence of the body : awareness in and beyond experience /
Presence of the body : awareness in and beyond experience /
edited by Gert Hofmann, National University of Ireland, Snjezana Zoric, University of Zadar.
- 1 online resource.
- Consciousness, literature and the arts ; v. 50 .
- Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 50. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328075. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: Presence of the Body—Awareness in and beyond Experience / Bodies and Their Matter / Losing the Plot: Inappropriate Fictions and the Art of the Theatre / Examining Body Limits / Ritualised Corporeality in Contemporary Croatian Art / Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales / Lost in Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof’s Body in Poetry / Foreign Language—Foreign Body: The Embodiment of Sprachfremde in Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen and Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage / Putting Hell on Paper: Chronic Pain Patients and the Challenge of Illness Narratives / Neuroethical Reflections on Body and Awareness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Ian McEwan’s Saturday / Self, Interrupted: Body, Awareness, and Continuity in Oliver Sacks’s A Leg to Stand On / Performances in the Anthropocene: Embodiment and Environment(s) in Ilija Trojanow’s Climate Change Novel / Disintegrating Identities: Bodily Presence in Contemporary Writing / Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies / The Silent Performance of Mindfulness: Aware Corporeality / Corporeal Awareness of No-Self / Index / Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić -- Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić -- Leonida Kovač -- Franc Chamberlain -- Milica Ivić -- Josip Zanki -- Lidija Štrmelj -- Karin Bauer -- Anja K. Seiler -- Elisa Primavera-Lévy -- Sara Strauß -- Tanja Reiffenrath -- Sabine Wilke -- Gert Hofmann -- Graham Parkes -- Snježana Zorić -- Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Presence of the Body provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dialogue between theory and practice about the impact of the body on human awareness in the fields of art, writing, meditative practice, and performance. This dialogue benefits from the neuro-systematic integration of “embodied” knowledge in the cognitive sciences, but it also suggests creative and transformative dynamics of embodiment which, beyond conceptualisation, emerge in sophisticated acts of writing, performing and meditating. Exploring the presence and experience character of the body-awareness relationship, a double perspective beyond cognitive fixations is suggested: 1) a body-centred touch of the world which inspires life as a creative ‘writing’ process, and 2) in line with Buddhist thought, an empty space of ‘pure presence’ from which all conscious processes originate.
9789004334748
10.1163/9789004334748 DOI
2016039609
Human body in literature.
Human beings in art.
Human body in mass media.
Human body (Philosophy)
Human body--Social aspects.
PN56.B62 / P74 2017
809/.933561
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: Presence of the Body—Awareness in and beyond Experience / Bodies and Their Matter / Losing the Plot: Inappropriate Fictions and the Art of the Theatre / Examining Body Limits / Ritualised Corporeality in Contemporary Croatian Art / Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales / Lost in Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof’s Body in Poetry / Foreign Language—Foreign Body: The Embodiment of Sprachfremde in Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen and Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage / Putting Hell on Paper: Chronic Pain Patients and the Challenge of Illness Narratives / Neuroethical Reflections on Body and Awareness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Ian McEwan’s Saturday / Self, Interrupted: Body, Awareness, and Continuity in Oliver Sacks’s A Leg to Stand On / Performances in the Anthropocene: Embodiment and Environment(s) in Ilija Trojanow’s Climate Change Novel / Disintegrating Identities: Bodily Presence in Contemporary Writing / Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies / The Silent Performance of Mindfulness: Aware Corporeality / Corporeal Awareness of No-Self / Index / Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić -- Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić -- Leonida Kovač -- Franc Chamberlain -- Milica Ivić -- Josip Zanki -- Lidija Štrmelj -- Karin Bauer -- Anja K. Seiler -- Elisa Primavera-Lévy -- Sara Strauß -- Tanja Reiffenrath -- Sabine Wilke -- Gert Hofmann -- Graham Parkes -- Snježana Zorić -- Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Presence of the Body provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dialogue between theory and practice about the impact of the body on human awareness in the fields of art, writing, meditative practice, and performance. This dialogue benefits from the neuro-systematic integration of “embodied” knowledge in the cognitive sciences, but it also suggests creative and transformative dynamics of embodiment which, beyond conceptualisation, emerge in sophisticated acts of writing, performing and meditating. Exploring the presence and experience character of the body-awareness relationship, a double perspective beyond cognitive fixations is suggested: 1) a body-centred touch of the world which inspires life as a creative ‘writing’ process, and 2) in line with Buddhist thought, an empty space of ‘pure presence’ from which all conscious processes originate.
9789004334748
10.1163/9789004334748 DOI
2016039609
Human body in literature.
Human beings in art.
Human body in mass media.
Human body (Philosophy)
Human body--Social aspects.
PN56.B62 / P74 2017
809/.933561