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Resisting Representation.
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 pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 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; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E.