| Writing in Pain: Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Ramazani, V. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230600654 ISBN-13: 9780230600652 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: Bringing poststructuralist theories of discourse into dialogue with biologically and culturally informed models of pain and affect, this book explores the representation of traumatic historical events such as war and revolution in literary texts by Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Zola. Focusing on the rising industrial capitalism of early modern France, Vaheed Ramanzani considers how the patterns of thought and practice developed during that period inflect a contemporary "culture of denial" and critiques the symbiosis between everyday forms of language and mass irruptions of violence. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - History | Europe - France - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 840.935 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.16" W x 8.14" (0.73 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the "culture of denial." |