Title

Opening The Sacred Body Or The Profaned Host In The Merchant Of Venice

Abstract

This text was conceived and begun in the Orient, the Middle East (American University of Beirut) and was completed in the Occident (University of Central Florida). Between the beginning of an end, the birth of a death, the end of a beginning and the death of a birth, in that painful intersection, this text aims at tracing the phenomena and events of opening and cutting that leave their imprints upon the textual landscape of The Merchant of Venice. It will not be a question here of repeating or returning to the paradigm of the circumcision, but of highlighting that Shylock's attempt to open the body, to make an incision into the Christian body of Antonio represents and reproduces a willingness to attack and to profane the Eucharist. © 2013 © 2013 Taylor & Francis.

Publication Date

11-1-2013

Publication Title

English Studies

Volume

94

Issue

7

Number of Pages

821-844

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2013.840130

Socpus ID

84887933188 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84887933188

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