Every known society wears some form of clothing. It is central to how we experience our bodies and how we understand the sociocultural dimensions of our embodiment. It is also central to how we understand works of literature. In this innovative study, Brazil demonstrates how medieval writers use clothing to direct readers’ and spectators’ awareness to forms of embodiment. Offering insights into how poetic works, plays, and devotional treatises target readers’ kinesic intelligence—their ability to understand movements and gestures—Brazil demonstrates the theological implications of clothing, often evinced by how garments limit or facilitate the movements and postures of bodies in narratives. By bringing recent studies in the field of embodied cognition to bear on narrated and dramatized interactions between dress and body, this book offers new methodological tools to the study of clothing.

The Corporeality of Clothing in Medieval Literature (Early Drama, Art, and Music)

Literature & Fiction

Brazil, Sarah

History & Criticism

Walter de Gruyter

On 25 May 2018, the Irish people voted by an overwhelming majority to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, and instead to add the wording, "Provision may be made by law for the regulation of termination of pregnancy." Bringing together poetry and other writing from Ireland and beyond, Rise Up & Repeal celebrates Ireland's historic choice, honours the hard work of consciousness-raising which helped to make it happen, and lets many voices speak, collectively and individually, about what this day means to them.

Rise Up and Repeal: A poetic archive of the 8th amendment

Bernstein, Sarah

Poetry

Sad Press

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