Sabine Coelsch-Foisner

Marta Fernández Morales

The human body is a recurrent theme in contemporary literatures in English. The aim of this collection of essays is to explore its multiple representations and functions within a wide range of texts drawn together from various Anglophone cultures. For thematic coherence, this volume is divided into four parts: Diseased Bodies, Invented Bodies, Gendered and Transgender Bodies, and Fragmented and Mutilated Bodies. By adopting multi-disciplinary perspectives, each group of essays illustrates the different ways in which these become multiply signifying sites of cultural and political representation, whether the mode is realistic or daringly speculative and fantastic, as in the case of genetically designed bodies, monstrous and machine bodies. This book contributes to understanding the body as a culture-specific construct.

Cultural and Political Implications

The Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English

Michaela Schwarzbauer

Akten der Tagung der Interdisziplinären Forschungsgruppe Metamorphosen an der Universität Salzburg in Kooperation mit der Universität Mozarteum und der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Polyästhetische Erziehung (Zell an der Pram, 2003)

Metamorphosen

"Drama translation and theatre practice was the title of our eleventh annual conference, held in 2002, in the series Salzburg Conferences on Literature and Culture"--Pref.

Drama Translation and Theatre Practice

Hanna Wallinger

Gerhild Reisner

Women's Literature at the End of the Millennium

Daughters of Restlessness

Wolfgang Görtschacher

Essays in English and American Studies in Honour of Holger M. Klein

Text and Context

Ovid's Metamorphoses in English Poetry

Sabine Coelsch-Foisner

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