As a great artist, one senses that finally Hatoum cannot help herself, and her critical and often angry pieces ultimately evoke the spectator's sympathy for the awkward clumsiness of the human body whose very fleshliness is actually the most precious thing we know.

As "yellow skin and bone" (84), Miss Havisham's body is an envelope hosting a skeleton, her lack of fleshliness pointing even more powerfully to her material body, as a corpse urging anatomists to investigate it before putrefaction sets in.

Such persistent thematic links between nature, decay, and death foreground an emphasis upon corporeality and 'fleshliness'.

(Jerome's familiarity with Jews, his strident appeals to the pristine Hebrew of their scriptures, and his matching nervousness about Christian Judaizing supply an intermittent but vital counterpoint to Fredriksen's discussion of Augustine.) The fleshliness of Augustine's Jews was that of an ideal but evolving type.

And it is noteworthy that this chapter concludes, as the two earliest had done, by elaborating upon Elizabeth's fleshliness. The chapter's final mediations are upon the measure of beauty, both human and animal, Elizabeth once enjoyed and upon her coming into greater awareness of the embodied being's universal susceptibility to degeneration, decline, and death.

But the psyche, for Yuskavage, is a pulse in the flesh, and fleshliness is a continuum where human versus inanimate is not an important distinction.

For example, David Daube and David Biale emphasize that the text celebrates and blesses the fleshliness of sexual intercourse and the procreative possibilities inherent in it.

(11) In this case, then, it seems James' art criticism does, as Susan Griffin argues in her introduction to Sweeney's The Painter's Eye (2), pronounce itself on the context of Rubens' art, but the views and the criticism expressed reflect those of a Victorian public averse to the fleshliness of Rubens' scenes.