The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh: Cultural and Theoretical Returns to the Body

The essays in The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh explore the complexities of modern and postmodern embodiment by drawing attention to a marked tendency in contemporary theory and cultural practice to return to flesh and redefine its limits, meanings, and potentialities. Engaging with issues as diverse as technologized performance, cosmetic surgery, and lifestyle TV, the essays in this collection raise crucial questions and open up new horizons for further research in current debates surrounding enfleshment. The cross-disciplinarity of this book, which can be used in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, will attract the attention of scholars from a diversity of fields, such as literature, sociology, popular culture, art, theater, and film.

The Editors: Zoe Detsi-Diamanti is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has been teaching and researching in the fields of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture and ideology, American drama and politics, and popular culture. She is the author of Early American Women Dramatists, 1775-1860 (1998), as well as articles in several journals.
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou is Assistant Professor in the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has been teaching and publishing on realism, modernism, and the English novel, as well as on feminist and body theory. She is the author of Feminist Readings of the Body in Virginia Woolf’s Novels (1997) and has co-edited a special journal issue for Gramma (2003). She is currently researching on Enlightenment sexualities.
Effie Yiannopoulou is Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Theory at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. Her publications are in the field of twentieth-century women’s writings and have appeared in book collections and international journals. She has recently co-edited Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility (2006) and special journal issues for The European Journal of English Studies (2005) and for Gramma (2003). She is currently researching the idea of Europe in the works of Rebecca West.