Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body by Mintz, Susannah B.

Hurt and Pain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474245425)

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Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body by Mintz, Susannah B.

Hurt and Pain

$51.95
Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body by Mintz, Susannah B.

Hurt and Pain

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Susannah B. Mintz
ISBN-10: 1474245420
ISBN-13: 9781474245425
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2015
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
By Susannah B. Mintz
By Susannah B. Mintz
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Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. She is the author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Illness and Disability and co-editor of a critical volume on the essayist Nancy Mairs.

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