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Suffering and the remedy of art /

This book suggests that a listening to suffering may profit from a literary hearing, and vice versa. It is not only that literature tells of suffering but that suffering may tell us something about the nature of literature.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schweizer, Harold, 1950-
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. To Give Suffering a Language. Literature and Medicine. Arthur Kleinman's Case of the Little Girl
  • 2. Coverings/Apertures: The Invisibility of Suffering. Barthes on Photography. The Newsweek Cover of May 10, 1993. P.J. Griffiths' Photograph
  • 3. Suffering as Metaphor. Nietzsche's Remedy of Art. Freud's Narrative Cure
  • 4. Job or the Meaninglessness of Suffering. Job's Silence. Job Speaking. God Speaking. Job's Restitution
  • 5. Antigone or the Secrecy of Suffering. Antigone's Suffering. Kierkegaard's Antigone. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's Antigone. Antigone's Suicide
  • 6. Lear or the Causelessness of Suffering. Suffering Love
  • 7. Matthew Arnold: The Modern Painful. Modern Problems. Beyond Tragedy
  • 8. Robinson Jeffers' Aesthetic of Pain. Nature. The Shining. The Unavailability of Tragedy
  • 9. Lyric Suffering in W.H. Auden and Irving Feldman. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" Feldman's "Bystander at the Massacre"
  • 10. Paul Celan: Suffering in Translation.