[PDF.58xw] The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment

The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment

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 | #2662499 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1993-05-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .61 x6.28 x9.34l, | File type: PDF | 160 pages

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||4 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| This is a truly fabulous piece of criticism.|By Barbara Blakley|Ellmann's work is a must-read for anyone interested in anorexia in literature. As theory, it is remarkably readable, interesting, and compelling. Her reading of Richardson's Clarissa actually makes one want to read the longest novel in the English language, and her work on hunger strikers from various movements

The phenomenon of voluntary self-starvation - whether by political hunger strikers or lone anorectics - is a puzzle of engrossing power, suggesting a message more radical than any uttered aloud. In this fascinating phenomenology, Maud Ellmann teases out this message, its genesis, expression, and significance. How, she asks, has the act of eating become the metaphor for compliance, starvation the metaphor for protest? How does the rejection of food become the rejection of...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment   |  Maud Ellmann. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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