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Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body

Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body

Mintz, Susannah B.

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1441174486
ISBN13: 9781441174482
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 30 2014
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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