tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post114411811156207143..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: My body class - more brainstormingBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1144884060160532722006-04-12T16:21:00.000-07:002006-04-12T16:21:00.000-07:00Hi, I just came across your blog thanks to the exc...Hi, I just came across your blog thanks to the excellent Really Dead Women Writers post. I don't get to teach courses on the body (curse these disciplines!) though I have been doing a bit with it in my research and writing. Can I make two modest suggestions, coming from rather different theoretical perspectives than what you've already covered? As a nice corrective to Foucault, I really liked Silvia Federici's <I>Caliban and the Witch</I>. Federici looks at the witch hunts as a moment of primitive accumulation; moving stuff. A bit more theoretical and less historical is a book I really love: David McNally's <I>Bodies of Meaning</I>. McNally sides with Bahktin and Voloshinov against Saussure's theory of language, and uses this as a basis for critiquing Derrida and others. <BR/><BR/>Would you consider posting your course reading list on your blog when it's ready?spikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708210505940283598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1144279019064818082006-04-05T16:16:00.000-07:002006-04-05T16:16:00.000-07:00This class looks great - you're going to have a to...This class looks great - you're going to have a tough time narrowing things down, but I love the way you've split the class up into sections! I'm teaching my body class next year (I got some great feedback that I'd be happy to share!) and I'm ashamed to say that I never thought of Bhaktin...Laustic also mentioned this book, which sounded cool: Robert Mills's _Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure & Punishment in Medieval Culture_ - it's period-specific, but it might be interesting!<BR/><BR/>Please keep me/us updated - it's very interesting and helpful (hope you don't mind if I take a few pages out of your book!)...medieval womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17278854285443306227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1144190728275866352006-04-04T15:45:00.000-07:002006-04-04T15:45:00.000-07:00Your class sounds like it will be a hit! As the p...Your class sounds like it will be a hit! As the previous commenter says, though you may not need *more* texts, I can't help suggesting Dante's Inferno (perhaps, dare I propose it, excerpted?) for the middle section of the course. And for some reason, Benjamin's Trauerspiel keeps coming to mind as I read through your ideas for the disintegration of allegory and fragmentation of discourse resonances. But it could just be my Benjamin obsession acting up again...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1144183802456621812006-04-04T13:50:00.000-07:002006-04-04T13:50:00.000-07:00Sounds like a fantastic class, and one I'd love to...Sounds like a fantastic class, and one I'd love to take. Coincidentally, I did a quick run through of humoral theory in class today and was reminded again of how much students like the particular weirdness of that kind of conception of the body. <BR/><BR/>Not that you need any more material, but "Revenger's Tragedy" would fit right in, what with Vindice toting Gloriana's skull around and his speeches re-situating medieval rotting-corpse/beautiful-body dichotomies.<BR/><BR/>(P.S. I've really been enjoying your blog since discovering it recently!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com