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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by
which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception.
Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including: the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the 'Great Stink' that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an eggplant registered in a poetic performance;
tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes
literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of, the senses.
Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by
which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception.
Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including: the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the 'Great Stink' that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an eggplant registered in a poetic performance;
tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes
literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of, the senses.
Autoren-Porträt
Annette Kern-Stähler is professor and chair of Medieval English Studies at the University of Bern. She was professeur invitée at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and honorary professor of English at the University of Kent at Canterbury and held fellowships at the Huntington Library and the Harry Ransom Centre. She studied at the Universities of York, Bonn, Oxford, and Münster. She has published widely on the senses in medieval literature,the uses of space, and post-war British-German relations. Among her most recent publications are two co-edited volumes: The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England (2016), and Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England (2019).
Elizabeth Robertson is Professor Emerita at the University of Glasgow. Her primary research interests are in gender and religion, literary form, the representation of the soul, and the senses in Middle English literature. Co-founder of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, she has published a monograph on the Ancrene Wisse and over fifty essays in journals and collections of essays including in Studies in the Age of Chaucer and Speculum. She is co-principal investigator of the
interdisciplinary project 'The Senses: Past and Present' (with Annette Kern-Stähler and Fiona Macpherson). She has just completed a monograph Chaucerian Consent: Women, Religion and Subjection in Late Medieval England.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2023, 488 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Annette Kern-Stähler, Elizabeth Robertson
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192657461
- ISBN-13: 9780192657466
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2023
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