Gert Hofmann, Dr. phil. habil. (2011, University of Rostock) is Head of the Department of German at the National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC). He has published extensively on literary and cultural theory, including Schweigende Tropen. Studien zu einer Ästhetik der Ohnmacht (Francke, 2003).Snježana Zorić, Dr. phil. (2000, University of Zagreb), is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zadar. She has published widely on Asian religions and anthropological theory, including Yongsan-jae. Buddhist Ritual as a Mirror Image of the Korean Culture (Institute of Ethnology and Folkloristics, Zagreb, 2004).

• AcknowledgementsTable of ContentGert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić: Introduction. Presence of the Body—Awareness In and Beyond ExperiencePRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCELeonida Kovač: Bodies and their MatterFranc Chamberlain: Losing the Plot: Inappropriate Fictions and the Art of the TheatreMilica Ivić: Examining Body LimitsJosip Zanki: Ritualised Corporeality in Contemporary Croatian ArtTHE ACT OF WRITINGLidija Štrmelj: Body and Awareness as Reflected in the Wife of Bath: A Historical Study Based on Chaucer’s Canterbury TalesKarin Bauer: Lost in Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof’s Body in PoetryAnja Seiler: Foreign Language—Foreign Body: The Embodiment of Sprachfremde in Dimitré Dinev’s Engelszungen and Terézia Mora’s Alle TageElisa Primavera-Lévy: Putting Hell on Paper: Chronic Pain Patients and the Challenge of Illness NarrativesSara Strauß: Neuroethical Reflections on Body and Awareness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Ian McEwan’s SaturdayTanja Reiffenrath: Self, Interrupted: Body, Awareness, and Continuity in Oliver Sacks’s A Leg to Stand OnSabine Wilke: Performances in the Anthropocene: Embodiment and Environment(s) in Ilija Trojanow’s Climate Change NovelGert Hofmann: Disintegrating Identities: Bodily Presence in Contemporary WritingEXPERIENCE OF SELF-TRANSCENDENCEGraham Parkes: Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian PhilosophiesSnježana Zorić: The Silent Performance of Mindfulness: Aware Corporeality / Corporeal Awareness of No-SelfIndex