Presence of the Body: Awareness in and beyond Experience

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Presence of the Body—Awareness in and beyond Experience

Part 1: Presentation and Performance

1 Bodies and Their Matter

2 Losing the Plot: Inappropriate Fictions and the Art of the Theatre

3 Examining Body Limits

4 Ritualised Corporeality in Contemporary Croatian Art

Part 2: The Act of Writing

5 Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

6 Lost in Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof’s Body in Poetry

7 Foreign Language—Foreign Body: The Embodiment of Sprachfremde in Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen and Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage

8 Putting Hell on Paper: Chronic Pain Patients and the Challenge of Illness Narratives

9 Neuroethical Reflections on Body and Awareness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Ian McEwan’s Saturday

10 Self, Interrupted: Body, Awareness, and Continuity in Oliver Sacks’s A Leg to Stand On

11 Performances in the Anthropocene: Embodiment and Environment(s) in Ilija Trojanow’s Climate Change Novel

12 Disintegrating Identities: Bodily Presence in Contemporary Writing

Part 3: Experience of Self-Transcendence

13 Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies

14 The Silent Performance of Mindfulness: Aware Corporeality / Corporeal Awareness of No-Self

Index