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
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84887933188 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84887933188
STARS Citation
Gleyzon, François Xavier, "Opening The Sacred Body Or The Profaned Host In The Merchant Of Venice" (2013). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 6415.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/6415