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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scarry, Elaine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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.