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- Title
«Shall the Head neuer come to that Nature requireth» Acefalia come simulacro della colpa e del caos nell’Inghilterra della prima età moderna.
- Authors
Baratta, Luca
- Abstract
In four English pamphlets published between 1609 and 1646, acephaly emerges as a simulacrum of guilt: the lack of the head, according to the ideological reading of these publications, becomes a symbol of disorder – physical and metaphysical at the same time – in the private or public sphere, and may therefore be used as an effective means of repression. Headlessness says, in an analogical way, about the lack of a guiding principle or the breaking of a hierarchically stable order. In the apocalyptic imagery fostered by the clash of faiths, God watches over order also through the whims of nature: the headless creature makes itself a sign of divine anger and, through a mechanism of similarity between guilt and deformity, a powerful means of social control.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; SOCIAL control; PUBLIC sphere; GUILT (Psychology); PAMPHLETS; ANGER
- Publication
BETWEEN, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 24, p1
- ISSN
2039-6597
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13125/2039-6597/5215