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Hat der Schmerz eine Geschichte? Ja, er hat. Dies zeigt das Buch anhand der Verhandlungen des Schmerzes in literarischen Texten sowie in medizinischen Abhandlungen. Im 18. Jahrhundert kommt es zu einer Serie aufeinander bezogener historischer Umstellungen im Wissen vom Schmerz. In der ersten Jahrhunderthälfte erscheint der Schmerz schlicht als Indikator eines äußerlichen Angriffs auf den intakten Bau der Körpermaschine; in der zweiten Jahrhunderthälfte hingegen wird er in die physiologischen Prozesse integriert: Das menschliche Leben behauptet sich seither nicht nur gegen den Schmerz; der Schmerz selbst wird vielmehr originärer Quellpunkt allen Lebens und produktive Grundlage aller menschlichen Kultur. Zugleich vollzieht sich in dieser Zeit eine Verunsicherung der Schmerzenszeichen, vor allem dort, wo der Schmerz zum Gegenstand experimenteller Anordnungen gemacht wird.

German literature --- Pain in literature. --- Suffering in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Pain in literature --- Suffering in literature --- Young Germany --- History and criticism

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From Sade at one end of the nineteenth century to Freud at the other, via many French novelists and poets, pleasure and pain become ever more closely entwined. Whereas the inseparability of these themes has hitherto been studied from isolated perspectives, such as psychoanalysis, sadism and sado-masochism, melancholy, or post-structuralist textual jouissance , the originality of this collaborative volume lies in its exploration of how pleasure and pain function across a broader range of contexts. The essays collected here demonstrate how the complex relationship between pleasure and pain plays a vital role in structuring nineteenth-century thinking in prose fiction (Balzac, Flaubert, Musset, Maupassant, Zola), verse and the memoir as well as socio-cultural studies, medical discourses, aesthetic theory and the visual arts. Featuring an international selection of contributors representing the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies – historical, literary, cultural, art historical, philosophical, and sociopolitical – the volume attests to the vitality, coherence and interdisciplinarity of nineteenth-century French studies and will be of interest to a wide cross-section of scholars and students of French literature, society and culture.

French literature --- Pleasure in literature. --- Pain in literature. --- French literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1800-1899

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"What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine explores how memory is performed both in Ireland and abroad by considering the significant body of contemporary Irish theatre that contends with its own culture and history. Analyzing examples from this realm of theatre, Pine focuses on the idea of witnesses, both as performers on stage and as members of the audience. Whose memories are observed in these transactions, and how and why do performances prioritize some memories over others? What does it mean to create, rehearse, perform, and purchase the theatricalization of memory? The Memory Marketplace shows this transaction to be particularly fraught in the theatricalization of traumatic moments of cultural upheaval, such as the child sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. In these performances, the role of empathy becomes key within the marketplace dynamic, and Pine argues that this empathy shapes the kinds of witnesses created. The complexities and nuances of this exchange-subject and witness, spectator and performer, consumer and commodified-provide a deeper understanding of the crucial role theatre plays in shaping public understanding of trauma, memory, and history". Introduction: The Market for Pain -- Tell Them That You Saw Us: Witnessing Docu-verbatim Memory -- The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory -- The Commissioned Witness, Theatre, and Truth -- The Immaterial Labor of Listening: Presence, Absence, Failure, and the Commodification of the Witness -- Consumers or Witnesses: Site-Specific Performance -- Conclusion: Activism in the Marketplace.

Pain in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Collective memory in literature. --- Collective memory and literature.

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Pain in art. --- Pain in art. --- Pain in literature. --- Pain in literature. --- Pain in mass media. --- Pain in mass media. --- Pain in motion pictures. --- Pain in motion pictures. --- Pain --- Pain --- Pain. --- Pain. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy.

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"Why do African writers choose to describe pain in their novels, memoirs and travelogues? What purpose could such descriptions serve? And do they fall into the danger of simply re-confirming negative stereotypes about Africa as an inevitably pained continent? Perceiving Pain in African Literature argues that the literary text has a particular role to play in contesting and re-working the personal, social and political meanings of pain. Drawing on fiction and life-writing published in English and French over the last forty years, this book explores the complexities of literature's invitation to imagine pain.Themes such as pain and meaning, literature as testimony, conflict writing, genocide and human rights are explored in relation to primary texts from West Africa, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Southern Africa. Authors including Yvonne Vera, J.M.Coetzee, Ahmadou Kourouma, Véronique Tadjo and Aminatta Forna are discussed alongside theoretical insights from medical anthropology, cultural theory, postcolonial studies and global literature"--

African fiction (English) --- Pain in literature. --- African fiction (French) --- Postcolonialism. --- Literary criticism --- History and criticism. --- General. --- African. --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- French.