Resisting Representation

by Elaine Scarry

Book Overview

Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, and controversial." Now Oxford has collected some of Scarry's most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195089642
• ISBN13: 9780195089646
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"