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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World - Scarry, Elaine
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"In its breadth and humaneness of vision, in the density and richness of its prose, and above all in the compelling nature of its argument, this is indeed an extraordinary book"-- The New York Times Book Review . "A richly original, provocative book"-- The Washington Post Book World . "Brilliant, ambitious, and controversial"-- The Los Angeles Times Book Review . Drawing on literature and art, medical cases and Amnesty International reports, Elaine Scarry offers a compelling meditation on pain and its relation to language, ...

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World 1987, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195049961

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World 1985, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195036015

Hardcover