In literature, the term "body" can refer to both physical bodies of characters within a story, as well as the portrayal of bodies in terms of themes such as identity, desire, mortality, and transformation. The body can be a powerful symbol or metaphor that conveys deeper meanings and emotions in a literary work.
Ilona Dobosiewicz has written: 'The body' -- subject(s): Human body in literature, English literature, American literature, History and criticism 'The dream' -- subject(s): Dreams in literature, English literature, American literature, History and criticism
Richard Rambuss has written: 'Closet devotions' -- subject(s): Body, Human, Body, Human, in literature, Christianity, Christianity and literature, Desire in literature, Devotional literature, English, English Devotional literature, English Erotic literature, English literature, Erotic literature, English, History, History and criticism, History of doctrines, Homosexuality, Homosexuality and literature, Human Body, Intellectual life, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Homosexuality, Religious aspects of
Steven Bruhm has written: 'Gothic bodies' -- subject(s): Body, Human, in literature, English Horror tales, English literature, Gothic revival (Literature), History and criticism, Horror tales, English, Mind and body in literature, Pain in literature, Politics and literature, Romanticism
Kristin E. Pitt has written: 'Body, nation, and narrative in the Americas' -- subject(s): Literatures, Politics and literature, National characteristics, American, in literature, History and criticism, National characteristics, Latin American, in literature, Political persecution in literature, State, The, in literature, Disappeared persons in literature, Human body in literature, History
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Jonathan Gil Harris has written: 'Foreign bodies and the body politic' -- subject(s): Body, Human, in literature, Discourse analysis, Literary, English literature, History, History and criticism, Literary Discourse analysis, Literature and medicine, Literature and society, Politics and literature, Social problems in literature, Vistors, Foreign, in literature, Xenophobia
Ethnic literature is the body of written works by people from a distinctive culture, language, or religion.
Henry Malter has written: 'Personification of soul and body' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Hebrew literature, Arabic literature, Body and soul in literature, Personification in literature, History and criticism 'Saadia Gaon' -- subject(s): Accessible book
R. A. Shoaf has written: 'Chaucer's body' -- subject(s): Anxiety in literature, Blood, Body, Human, in literature, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Circulation, Diseases in literature, History, History and criticism, Knowledge, Literature and medicine, Medicine, Medieval Tales 'Simple rules' 'Milton, poet of duality' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, Duality (Logic) in literature, History, Monism in literature, Semiotics and literature
Francis Barker has written: 'The tremulous private body' -- subject(s): Art and literature, English literature, Body, Human, in literature, History and criticism, Politics and literature, Literature and society 'Confronting the Crisis: War, Politics, and Culture in the Eighties' 'Solzhenitsyn' -- subject(s): Political and social views, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and literature, History
David George Hale has written: 'The body politic' -- subject(s): Body, Human, in literature, English literature, Figures of speech, History, History and criticism, Metaphor, Politics and literature, Renaissance
Dalia Judovitz has written: 'Unpacking Duchamp' -- subject(s): Modernism (Art), Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism 'The culture of the body' -- subject(s): Body, Human (Philosophy), Body, Human in literature, French literature, History, History and criticism, Human in literature Body, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, Modern