The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Elaine Scarry

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World


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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World Elaine Scarry
Publisher: Oxford University Press




As “Fourteen Meditations of Torture of Women by Nancy Spero” by Diana Nemiroff; “Symmetries,” a story by Luisa Valenzuela; and an excerpt from The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry. First, in last night's salon in honor of my cancer-stricken friend Alan Paskow, we discussed the introduction to Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Tropes of pain and violence in the Riddles concerned with tools and other utilitarian objects [such as pens and keys] through the lens of Elaine Scarry's work in The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications. Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. In her book, she Intense pain is world destroying. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. €�Willow Bark and Red Poppies: Advertising the Remedies for Physical Pain.” Resisting Representation. New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. The body in pain: The making and unmaking of the world. Nancy Spero in the interview with Jo Anna Isaak in Nancy Spero (London: Phaidon Press), 1996, p. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1985, p. Harvard English Professor Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain offers a riveting interpretation of the “making” and “unmaking” process as it pertains to torture.