Resisting Representation

Name: Resisting Representation
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ISBN: 9780195089646

ISBN-10: 0195089642

ISBN-13: 9780195089646

Edition: 2001

Authors: Elaine Scarry

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Resisting Representation brings together some of the most provocative essays by leading scholar Elaine Scarry. Through her readings of texts by Hardy, Beckett, Boethius, Thackeray, and others, Scarry examines the ability of language to accommodate conceptions of truth and cognition and also analyses phenomena such as physical pain and physical labour whose materiality might exclude them form reflexes of language.

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/29/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



Obdurate Sensation: Pain


Willow Bark and Red Poppies: Advertising the Remedies for Physical Pain



Participial Acts: Working


Work and the Body in Hardy and Other Nineteenth-Century Novelists



Nouns: The Realm of Things


Six Ways To Kill a Blackbird (or Any Other Intentional Object) in Samuel Beckett



The External Referent: History


Untransmissible History in Thackeray's Henry Esmond



The External Referent: Cosmic Order


The Well-Rounded Sphere: Cognition and Metaphysical Structure in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy


Acknowledgments


Index