Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe.

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Published by Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2001

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327 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, bleached spine, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht berieben, verblichener Rücken, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Introduction - Valeria Finucci: Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions -- 1. Theories of Reproduction - Elizabeth A. Clark: Generation, Degeneration, Regeneration: Original Sin and the Conception of Jesus in the Polemic between Augustine and Julian of Eclanum -- Valeria Finucci: Maternal Imagination and Monstrous Birth: Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata -- 2. Boundaries of Sex and Gender - Dale B. Martin: Contradictions of Masculinity: Ascetic Inseminators and Menstruating Men in Greco-Roman Culture -- Gianna Pomata: Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine -- Valeria Traub: The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris, or The Reemergence of the Tribade in English Culture -- 3. Female Genealogies - Marina Scordilis Brownlee: Genealogies in Crisis: Maria de Zayas in Seventeenth-Century Spain -- Maureen Quilligan: Incest and Agency: The Case of Elizabeth I -- 4. The Politics of Inheritance - Nancy G. Siraisi: In Search of the Origins of Medicine: Egyptian Wisdom and Some Renaissance Physicians -- Kevin Brownlee: The Conflicted Genealogy of Cultural Authority: Italian Responses to French Cultural Dominance in Il Tesoretto, Il Fiore, and La Commedia -- Peter Stallybrass: Hauntings: The Materiality of Memory on the Renaissance Stage. - This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically on the discourses that inform such genealogies, Generation and Degeneration moves from Greco-Roman times to the recent past to retrace generational fantasies and discords in a variety of related contexts, from the medical to the theological, from the literary to the historical. The discourses on reproduction, biology, degeneration, legacy, and lineage that this book broaches not only bring to the forefront concepts of sexual identity and gender politics but also show how they were culturally constructed and reconstructed through the centuries by medicine, philosophy, the visual arts, law, religion, and literature. Contributors reflect on an array of topics such as what makes men manly, the identity of Christ's father, erotic practices among women in sixteenth-century seraglios and, how mens hemorrhoids can be variously labeled. Other subjects include stories of menstruating males, early writings on the presumed inferiority of female bodily functions, a psychomorphology of the clitoris that challenges Freuds account of lesbianism as an infantile stage of sexual development, the geographical origins of medicine, and the materialization of genealogy in the presence of Renaissance theatrical ghosts. - VALERIA FINUCCI is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. She is the editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. KEVIN BROWNLEE is Professor of French and Italian at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Poetic Identity in Guillaume de Machau. ISBN 9780822326441 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 558.…

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Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe.
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Finucci, Valeria and Kevin Brownlee (Eds.):
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Durham ; London : Duke University Press
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2001
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Original softcover.
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English
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9780822326441
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