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Words and/without Bodies: The Incorporation of the Word as Poetological Imagery in Texts by Bohumil Hrabal and Jáchym Topol
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Foerster, Anna |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | As many studies have shown, the history of images of incorporation in literature is as long as the range of their metaphorical usage is wide. From antiquity to the present day, images of absorption, of imbibing or devouring, of sexual intercourse, of consuming oneself or the other, be it out of hunger, hate or love, desires of complete material possession or intellectual apprehension cover the whole spectrum from 'communion to cannibalism' (cf. Kilgour 1990). By dwelling on a point that can be defined as an interface, a topos of contact and interchange between the Self and the world it is surrounded by and situated in, they address the body specifically with regard to antithetical conceptions prevailing within or alongside established understandings of corporeality. Indeed, by focussing on the point of transgression of the boundaries between the inside and the outside of the body, they touch, so to speak, on the primal image of all binary oppositions.1 A special place therein is occupied by literary images of the incorporation of the written word. While exhibiting all the features mentioned above, they add an additional notion of self-referentiality. They specify the binaries that are addressed by focusing on the differentiation and the boundary between soma2 and logos in particular, and, on a more figurative level, of the relationship between the interior and the exterior of the text (also in the sense of intertextuality). Hence, in this paper, I will suggest reading images of incorporation of the word as a poetological metaphor, in which texts visualize the prerequisites, conditions, and consequences of their own narration and/or of their écriture. And therefore, as this term (bor- |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
