V. Ramazani

Broschiertes Buch

Writing in Pain

Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial

Beschreibung

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."

Autor

VAHEED RAMAZANI is Associate Professor of French, Tulane University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-37024-5
• 1st ed. 2007
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9781349370245
• ISBN-10: 134937024X
• Artikelnr.: 45077401

Rezensionen

"One anticipates future publications by Vaheed Ramazani hopefully and with pleasure." - SubStance

"The cogency and scope of this challenging but compelling argument about pain and the rhetoric of pain is as breathtaking as its exposition is patient and precise" - Ross Chambers, University of Michigan (Emeritus)"Ramazani s study measures the cultural resonances of the transformations of 19th century France by looking at an elemental register of human experience, pain. His thesis is arresting: that the cultural processing of pain mirrored and deepened the forms of material stratification and segregation increasingly imposed upon people and increasingly brought to consciousness by the developments that Louis-Napoleon s regime was organizing for France.Ramazani s analysis is theoretically sophisticated; his scholarship is extensive and pertinent. His close readings are ingenious and revealing. This is an important book on a fundamental topic." - Richard Terdiman, Professor of Literature and the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz