9780979118920-0979118921-The Body: An Essay

The Body: An Essay

ISBN-13: 9780979118920
ISBN-10: 0979118921
Author: Jenny Boully
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Essay Press
Format: Paperback 88 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780979118920
ISBN-10: 0979118921
Author: Jenny Boully
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Essay Press
Format: Paperback 88 pages

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The Body: An Essay (ISBN-13: 9780979118920 and ISBN-10: 0979118921), written by authors Jenny Boully, was published by Essay Press in 2007. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Body: An Essay (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.98.

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Cultural Writing. Poetry. Essays. Comprised of footnotes to a non-existent text, THE BODY: AN ESSAY is a meditation on absence, loss and disappearance that offers a guarded "narrative" of what may or may not be a love letter, a dream, a spiritual autobiography, a memoir, a scholarly digression, a treatise on the relation of life to book. Christian Bok describes Boully's groundbreaking text as one that "may simply annotate a fantastic biography from another reality, referring only to itself as a kind of dream within a dream...The reader can only fantasize about the original contexts that might have made such information significant to its author, and ultimately, implies that the body of any text consists of nothing but a void-filled with the exegetical projection of our own imagination." First published in 2002 and excerpted in such anthologies as The Next American Essay and The Best American Poetry 2002, THE BODY: AN ESSAY continues to challenge conventional notions of plot and narrative, genre and form, theory and practice, unremittingly questioning the presumptive boundaries between reflection, imagination, and experience.

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