Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons by Elaine Scarry
Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons

Elaine Scarry

Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons

Elaine Scarry

209 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

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Polemically set against the weightlessness of much recent discourse, this book explores the body as the ultimate testing ground for debates over language's ability to refer to the world.

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