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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Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.