Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Building on Elaine Scarry’s foundational description of pain as something that both destroys and elicits language, Thomas Constantinesco’s elegant and beautifully written monograph, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, shows how pain "fuels the work of literature" in the...
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2023
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | Building on Elaine Scarry’s foundational description of pain as something that both destroys and elicits language, Thomas Constantinesco’s elegant and beautifully written monograph, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, shows how pain "fuels the work of literature" in the era of the U.S. Civil War. Across various literary forms – from Emerson’s essays to Dickinson’s poetry to the diary of Alice James – the writers in this study grapple with various forms of pain: physical and... |
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