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1. Narrativizing Disease, Consuming the „Other": Food, Illness and Gender Stereotypes in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body.

Author

Mihaela-Cristina, Lazăr

Subjects
STEREOTYPES, GENDER, HUMAN body
Abstract

This paper tackles issues of gendered authorship and the connection female writing/female body in Jeanette Winterson's novel, „Written on the Body". I interpret the cancerous body of Louise from „Written on the Body" as an excessive body: the multiplication of cells in her diseased body is a metaphor of the transgressive, unbounded female body. The body turns against itself and engenders alienation, being perceived as an alien object. In the novel, disease is an equivalent of love, because both disrupt the borders of the self, threatening with the dissolution of the limit between self and other. Love is manifested as an urge to consume the body of the lover, as the tendency to be fused into a unified body. I also set out to investigate the gender indeterminacy and narratorial identity of „Written on the Body", and to shed light on the conundrum of the genderless narrator of this novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014

2. Postmodern concepts of the body in Jeanette Winterson's `Written on the Body'.

Author

Lindenmeyer, Antje

Subjects
*GENDER differences in literature, *BODY image in women, *CRITICISM
Abstract

Focuses on Jeanette Winterson's use and reworking of postmodern concepts of the body in her novel `Written on the Body.' Constructive ways of theorizing the female body; Critique of androcentric science and medicine to learn more about the female body; Winterson's manner of unsettling perceptions of gendered difference; Body image in women; Different meanings produced by the text.

Published
1999
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3. READING.

Author

Passaro, Vince

Subjects
BLIND Assassin, The (Book), FRAILTY Myth, The (Book), BURNING of Bridget Cleary: A True Story, The (Book), WRITTEN on the Body (Book)
Abstract

Features nine books. 'The Blind Assassin,' by Margaret Atwood; 'The Burning of Bridget Cleary,' by Angela Bourke; 'The Frailty Myth,' by Colette Dowling; 'The Mineral Palace,' by Heidi Julavits; 'Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History,' edited by Jane Caplan; 'George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large,' by Belinda Jack; 'Anthropology,' by Dan Rhodes.

Published
2000

4. Brief reviews.

Author

Reed-Morrisson, Laura

Subjects
WRITTEN on the Body (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Written on the Body,' by Jeanette Winterson.

Published
1994

5. Book reviews: Fiction.

Author

Hoffert, Barbara

Subjects
WRITTEN on the Body (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the novel `Written on the Body,' by Jeanette Winterson.

Published
1993

6. Reviews of Books: COMPARATIVE/WORLD.

Author

Gilman, Sander L.

Subjects
*TATTOOING, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History,' edited by Jane Caplan.

Published
2001

7. pages.

Author

TOEPFER, SUSAN, RACHLIN, JILL, SHAPIRO, SUSAN, and OLSHAN, JOSEPH

Subjects
*FICTION
Published
1993

8. Devil in the flesh.

Author

Annan, Gabriele

Subjects
WRITTEN on the Body (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the novel `Written on the Body,' by Jeanette Winterson.

Published
1993

9. No, no Jeanette.

Author

Stewart, Lucretia

Subjects
WRITTEN on the Body (Book), WINTERSON, Jeanette, 1959-
Abstract

Reviews the book `Written on the Body,' by British author Jeanette Winterson, an unhappy love story in which the narrator is the lover whose gender is never specified. Stir caused by difficulty in pinpointing the gender of the narrator; Author claims the character is both, female and male; The author has never concealed her sexual orientation; She has no time for men; More.

Published
1993

10. Body snatcher.

Author

Glendinning, Victoria

Subjects
WRITTEN on the Body (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the novel `Written on the Body,' by Jeanette Winterson.

Published
1993

11. PRETTY IN INK.

Author

Mifflin, Margot

Subjects
BODIES of Inscription (Book), DEMELLO, Margo, WRITTEN on the Body (Book), CAPLAN, Jane
Abstract

Reviews two books on skin art. `Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community,' by Margo DeMello; `Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History,' edited by Jane Caplan.

Published
2000

12. Written on the Body (Book Review).

Author

Eberhart, George M.

Subjects
WRITTEN on the Body (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History,' by Jane Caplan.

Published
2000

14. Forecasts: Fiction.

Subjects
WRITTEN on the Body (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Written on the Body,` by Jeanette Winterson.

Published
1992

15. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson.

Author

Chainey, Susan

Subjects
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-, Written on the Body (Book)
Abstract

Written on the Body is a meditation on the nature of sexual love and passion as experienced by the first-person narrator, whose name and gender are never revealed. The narrative’s primary focus is on the absent Louise, the most recent and apparently most passionately adored of a series of lovers, both men and women. Details of these earlier affairs are interspersed throughout the novel as points of comparison to the all-consuming passion expressed for Louise. Alternately anguished and exhilarated, cynical and romantic, the monologue immediately establishes the circumstances of lost love, although why and how this loss came about is not revealed until later. The narrator addresses his/her thoughts and ruminations at times to the absent Louise, at others to the reader.

Published
2022

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