Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons

by Elaine Scarry

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801841097
• ISBN13: 9780801841095
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"