Resisting representation:
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1. Verfasser: Scarry, Elaine (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1994
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
1 - Obdurate sensation: pain - Willow bark and red poppies: advertising the remedies for physical pain -- - 2 - Participial acts: working - Work and the body in Hardy and other nineteenth-century novelists -- - 3 - Nouns: the realm of things - Six ways to kill a blackbird (or any other intentional object) in Samuel Beckett -- - 4 - The external referent: history - Untransmissible history in Thackeray's Henry Esmond -- - 5 - The external referent: cosmic order - The well-rounded sphere: cognition and metaphysical structure in Boethius's Consolation of philosophy
Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, and controversial." Now Oxford has collected some of Scarry's most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius, through the nineteenth-century novel, to twentieth-century advertising. qWe often assume that all areas of experience are equally available
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (191 p.)
ISBN:0195042700
0195089642
0691070768
1280443073
1423735781
1601299834
9780195042702
9780195089646
9781280443077
9781423735786
9781601299833

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