 | Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; An American -- 20th century; Death in literature; Death in art; Diseases in literature; Diseases in art; Bereavement in literature; Bereavement in art; Body Human in literature; Human beings; "If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."--from the Introduction... Laura E. Tanner is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction. |
