Hurt and pain: Literature and the suffering body

Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body examines the strategies authors have used to portray bodies in pain, drawing on a diverse range of literary texts from the seventeenth century to the present day. Susannah B. Mintz provides readings of canonical writers including John Donne, Emily Dic...

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1. Verfasser: Mintz, Susannah B. 1965- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London [u.a.] Bloomsbury 2013
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Zusammenfassung:Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body examines the strategies authors have used to portray bodies in pain, drawing on a diverse range of literary texts from the seventeenth century to the present day. Susannah B. Mintz provides readings of canonical writers including John Donne, Emily Dickinson, and Samuel Beckett, alongside contemporary writers such as Ana Castillo and Margaret Edson, focusing on how pain is shaped according to the conventions-and also experiments-of genre: poetry, memoir, drama, and fiction. With insights from disability theory and recent studies of the language o
Beschreibung:IX, 198 S.
ISBN:9781441174482

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