{"product_id":"agony-for-others-jessica-colangelo-9780472078400","title":"Agony for Others: On Literature and Pain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgony for Others \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates the phenomenological, rhetorical, and political challenges of representing pain in literature. Pain cries vary between cultural and linguistic groups, and pain expression (such as grimacing or crying) can likewise vary in quality and intensity from person to person, affected by disability, temperament, and past experiences with pain, as well as the experiencer's own understanding of what that pain is and what it means. Jessica Colangelo explores pain's role as a subjective indication of objective damage, that, contrary to claims of its subjective privacy, the feeling of pain is always felt in terms of an objectively existing entity (one's physical body) which is perceivable by others. Thus, pain enters into intersubjectivity through the physical body--one's expressions, words, actions, presence--which then mediates between the self and the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on disability studies, phenomenology, philosophy, and literary studies, Colangelo examines works by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Sarah Kane, Elie Wiesel, and Margaret Edson to argue that the belief that pain is incommunicable and thought-destroying obscures its central role in relationships and community formation. \u003ci\u003eAgony for Others\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that pain is not excluded from, but rather constitutive of, intersubjectivity, and argues that the aesthetic dimension of interpretation is essential to understanding the ethical and political role of pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Colangelo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472078402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472078400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jessica Colangelo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852706656511,"sku":"9780472078400","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/agony-for-others-jessica-colangelo-9780472078400","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}