explores the textual tropes of liquidity in contemporary reconstructions of modern subjectivity. Arguing that the subject can be construed as a textual product of the imagery of solid body boundaries, this study comprises a gradually unfolding story of the poetics of the body / self.

Anna Chromik is Lecturer in Cultural and Literary Theory at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia (Poland).

Contents: Modern subjectivity – Body boundaries – – Cartesian subject – Humeral body – Grotesque body – Fluidity – Mirror stage – Individuality – Borders – Jacques Lacan – Julia Kristeva – Mary Douglas – Michel Foucault – Pre-Modern Undifferentiation – Birth of the Subject – Pre-Subjective Merger – Body without Boundaries – Asubjective Incontinence – Precarious Borders. Inhaltsverzeichnis