Resisting Representation
Published on 27. April 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-19-508964-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays displays Elaine Scarry's concern with problematics of representation as exemplified in literary texts that deal with such concepts as work, pain, time, and the cosmos. Through her readings of texts by Thomas Hardy, Samuel Beckett, Boethius, William Thackeray, and others, Scarry demonstrates the difficulties and the complexities of the ways in which language and imagery attempt, and fail, to make present some aspect of the `real'.
Reviews / Votes
Scarry's thesis evokes instant recognition ('I should have thought of that!'), and her readings of Hardy, Beckett, Thackeray, and Boethius are elegant and convincing. Resisting Representation made me see in a new way not only the works Scarry discusses, but also other literature; for a book of criticism, I can think of no higher praise. Harvard ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-508964-6 (9780195089646)
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Elaine Scarry
Resisting Representation
E-Book
09/1994
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€67.49
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Person
Author of The Body in Pain, OUP 1985