Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons

By (author): "Elaine Scarry"
Genres:Literary Criticism books  Criticism books  Feminism books  Literary Fiction books  
Publish Date: 1988
Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons
ISBN0801841097
ISBN139780801841095
AsinLiterature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons
Original titleLiterature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons (Selected Papers from the English Institute)
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.