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...
| Основен автор: | Scarry, Elaine. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=143868 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Resisting representation. |
Съдържание:
- 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
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- The external referent: cosmic order:
- The well-rounded sphere: cognition and metaphysical structure in Boethius's Consolation of philosophy.