The body in the text

摘要: It occurred to me only in hindsight that The Body in the Text seems like nothing so much as the title of a detective novel, or at least a critical exploration of detective novels as a genre. In working through th~ any different theoretical and critical writings on the body I often felt like a detective, looking for the issues and concerns which would provide the clue to what seems a relatively recent fascination with'the body'.'Seems' may be a crucial term here, since one of the interesting things I learned from this study is that the cultures of all times and places have …