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" Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 60-157, esp. "
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England - Page 116
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New Essays on The American

Martha Banta - Literary Collections - 1987 - 184 pages
...Imagination. 1860-1900 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1984). My account of embodiment is also indebted to Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). 13. Hawthorne's animistic domestic economy, like Stowe's, disavows the impersonality of things. "Phoebe,...
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American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning: Religion, Grief, and ...

Mitchell Robert Breitwieser - Indian captivities - 1990 - 244 pages
...Susan Howe, "The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson," Tremblor, no. 2. (1985), 115. 4. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 35. 5. Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, trans. James Strachey (New York: Norton, 1961),...
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The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain: Reading Politics as Paradox

Barbara J. Eckstein - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 228 pages
...1979-198$ (New York: WW Norton, 1986), p. 208. 64. Abel, Critical Inquiry, 8 (winter 1981): 177-78. 65. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 3-59. 66. Gilman, Difference and Pathology: the indented quotation is on pp. 17 and 21 ; the second...
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Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture

Jerome Seymour Bruner - Psychology - 1990 - 212 pages
...Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information," Psychological Review 63 ( 1 956) : 8 1-97. 29. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). 30. Hans Peter Rickman, Wilhelm Dilthey: Pioneer of the Human Studies (Berkeley: University of California...
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Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sheila Tobias - History - 1990 - 292 pages
...and Dan Smith, eds., Protest and Survive (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1981), p. 159. 52 14. See Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), chap. 2, p. 67, for further discussion of language that reverses sentient and insentient matter, "th[at]...
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Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition

Richard B. Miller - History - 1991 - 306 pages
...1977), par. 80. Chapter 1 1. For an eloquent discussion of the relation between injury and war, see Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 60-81 and passim. As the forthcoming analysis will show, problems surrounding injury are morally...
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Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance

Marilyn Migiel, Juliana Schiesari - History - 1991 - 302 pages
...the Referent, and the Proper Name," trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele, diacritics 14 (Fall 1984): 743See Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). ("Here, woman's rightful place I do not experience" [34]). Her father's return would restore her to...
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Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television

Michael A. Anderegg - Performing Arts - 1991 - 332 pages
...only be its dispersion. Notes 1. Michael Heir, Dispatches (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977) 278. 2. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985) 5. 3. All references to dialogue are from the soundtrack of Taxi Driver (Columbia Pictures, 1976):...
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New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham

Donald E. Pease - Fiction - 1991 - 142 pages
...University Press, 1985). 9. My emphasis on the social organization of pain is obviously indebted to Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). In historicizing the disposition of pain, however, I hope to modify Scarry's universalizing tendency....
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Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920

Regenia Gagnier - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 334 pages
...Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s" (Socialist Review 80 [March-April, 1985]) 65-107; Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking...the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). 13. Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions, especially essays 11, 12, and 14 (Cambridge: Cambridge University...
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