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Diamela Elite's community idea is a political position that conjugates art and life that proposes a direct dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of literary communism. It is a practice of articulating diverse plural voices from a common space that limits with the opening towards the other, forming an act of communication that involves "the communist interruption of the class domain, of social stratifications and of power, it is proposed to write in its expanded character," that is, different types of graphic inscriptions, somatographic and performative in general.

Monstrosity in literature.

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Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources, including medicine, satires, play scripts, dictionaries, natural philosophy, and texts on collecting wonders, this book provides a fresh perspective on monstrosity in early modern European culture. The essays explore how exceptional bodies challenged social, religious, sexual and natural structures and hierarchies in the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and contributed to its knowledge, moral and emotional repertoire. Prodigious births, maternal imagination, hermaphrodites, collections of extraordinary things, powerful women, disabilities, controversial exercise, shapeshifting phenomena and hybrids are examined in a period before all varieties and differences became normalized to a homogenous standard. The historicizing of exceptional bodies is central in the volume since it expands our understanding of early modern culture and deepens our knowledge of its specific ways of conceptualizing singularities, rare examples, paradoxes, rules and conventions in nature and society.

Abnormalities, Human --- Social aspects. --- early modern, culture, monstrosity, bodies, normalization.

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Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus et Louis-René des Forêts forment une génération d’écrivains qui renouvelle en profondeur les formes littéraires après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cette nouvelle poétique du récit intègre la menace d’une monstruosité du langage, insidieuse et aliénante.

Analyse du discours littéraire. --- Littérature française --- Fascism in literature. --- French language --- French literature --- Monstrosity in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Style. --- History and criticism

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This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster.

Chess --- Chess players --- Board games --- Mathematical recreations --- Social aspects --- animal. --- automaton chess-player. --- child prodigy. --- detective fiction. --- masculinities. --- melancholic. --- monstrosity. --- monstrous bodies. --- moralities. --- sinner. --- statuesque chess-player. --- superhero. --- transhuman.

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Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their biological functions. Investigations of male potency and the 'ability to perform' have long been mainstays of social, political, and artistic discourse and have often provoked spirited and partisan declarations on what it means to be a man. This interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have developed between the historical privilege often ascribed to the male and the vulnerabilities to which his body is prone. Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea's introduction illustrates how with the dawn of modern medicine during the Renaissance there emerged a complex set of languages for describing the male body not only as a symbol of strength, but as flesh and bone prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, the essays consider the critical ways in which medicine's interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender, and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of 'pathologies' including deformity, venereal disease, injury, nervousness, and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a broad range of sources including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature, and the Modern novel.

English literature --- American literature --- Men in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- Medicine in literature. --- Literature and medicine --- Masculinity in literature. --- History. --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine --- Medical care in literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- monstrosity --- medical humanities --- masculinity --- gender studies --- potency --- queer theory --- pathology