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"In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and impact of bodies in recent and contemporary Italian cultural production, in the lightof current developments in thinking about bodies and their locations within cultures. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students of Italian culture, teachers of Italian, historians, and art historians with interests in contemporary Italy, as well as to scholars and students of gender and cultural studies. Recent years have seen an exponential growth in critical and theoretical work that examines bodies from a variety of perspectives. Cultural, literary, visual, and psychoanalytical theories, to name a few intersecting bodies of scholarly work drawn on in this collection, question and shed light on the modalities by and through which bodies are staged, described, presented, deconstructed, and delighted in."--BOOK JACKET.Polezzi, Loredana is the author of 'In Corpore Bodies in Post-Unification Italy Edited By', published 2007 under ISBN 9780838641644 and ISBN 0838641644.
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