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Hurt and Pain

By Mintz, Susannah B.

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Hurt and Pain

By Mintz, Susannah B.

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Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body examines the strategies authors have used to portray bodies in pain, drawing on a diverse range of literary texts from the seventeenth century to the present day. Susannah B. Mintz provides readings of canonical writers including John Donne, Emily Dickinson, and Samuel Beckett, alongside contemporary writers such as Ana Castillo and Margaret Edson, focusing on how pain is shaped according to the conventions-and also experiments-of genre: poetry, memoir, drama, and fiction. With insights from disability theory and recent studies of the language of pain, Mintz delivers an important corrective to our most basic fears of physical suffering, revealing through literature that pain can be a source of connection, compassion, artistry, and knowledge. Not only an important investigation of authors' formal and rhetorical choices, Hurt and Pain reveals how capturing pain in literature can become a fundamental component of crafting human experience.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
210
Release Date:
2015-06-18
Publication Date:
2015-06-18
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1474245420
ISBN13:
9781474245425
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
327 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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