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- Title
Re-envisioning Reproduction: Dividing Life from Death in Charles Etienne's De la Dissection.
- Authors
Mollendorf, Miranda
- Abstract
Charles Estienne's De la Dissection des parties du corps humain (1546) presents the uterus not only as a site of generation and life, but also putrefaction and death. Estienne first writes about the uterus as a surgical site where life and death converge and must be separated, and then as an anatomical site where pain and pleasure are divided because of Galenic theories about the uterus that involve generation and corruption. In spite of frequent attempts to visually quarantine the uterus from the rest of the body with a printed inset, these surgical and anatomical separations between life and death are often clearer in the texts than in the images, which are as much about invisibility as visibility.
- Subjects
ESTIENNE, Charles; DE la Dissection des parties du corps humain (Book); HUMAN body in literature; BODY &; soul in literature; CESAREAN section in art; WOMAN (Philosophy) in literature; 16TH century French literature; FRENCH literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
Quidditas, 2011, Vol 32, p101
- ISSN
1544-9971
- Publication type
Literary Criticism