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BL
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1008765
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b763135
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| Title & Author
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The future of flesh : : a cultural survey of the body /\ edited by Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, and Effie Yiannopoulou.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
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| Page. NO
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viii, 273 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0230613470
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: 9780230613478
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Toward the Futures of Flesh: An Introduction / Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Effie Yiannopoulou -- pt. I. Disintegrating Bodies -- 2. Past of Flesh: Mortal and Immortal Bodies in Ancient Greek Poetry / Ekaterini Douka-Kabitoglou -- 3. Dead and Dying Body from Hume to Now / Thomas Laqueur -- 4. Langscapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory, and Philoktetes' Postmodern Painscript / Savas Patsalidis -- 5. Fleshly Evils: Clinical and Cultural (IL)Logics of the Chronic Pain Subject in Contemporary U.S. Society / Cindy L. Linden -- pt. II. Artistic Representations of Mutating Flesh -- 6. Chuck Palahniuk and the Violence of Beauty / Elisabeth Bronfen -- 7. Eye, Agency, and Bodily Becomings: Processing Breast Cancer in and through Images / Katve-Kaisa Kontturi -- 8. Fantastic 4-Body-ings: Ideal Grotesqueness in the Comic-Book Culture / Christina Dokou -- 9. Emergence: New Flesh and Life in New Media Art / Edwina Bartlem -- pt. III. Posthuman Enfleshments -- 10. Fleshing Out Virtual Bodies: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Cyberfantasy Cinema / Nicola Rehling -- 11. Flesh Encounters Biotechnology: Speculations on the Future of the Biological Machine / Domna Pastourmatzi -- 12. Modernity and the Other Body: The Human Contract with Mute Animality / Linda Williams -- 13. Meta(l)flesh / Rosi Braidotti.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in motion pictures.
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Human body in popular culture.
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Human body-- Social aspects.
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Human figure in art.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in motion pictures.
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Human body in popular culture.
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Human body-- Social aspects.
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Human figure in art.
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Körper
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Künste.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.933561
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PN56.B62F87 2009
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| Added Entry
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Detsi-Diamanti, Zoe,1966-
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Kitsē-Mytakou, Katerina.
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Yiannopoulou, Effie.
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