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ISBN: 9789004549487 9004677461 900454948X 9789004677463 Year: 2023 Publisher: Leiden ;Boston Brill
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Why is it so difficult to talk about pain? As we do today, the Greeks and Romans struggled to communicate their pain: this required a rich and subtle vocabulary which had to be developed over time. Pain Narratives traces the development of this language in literary, philosophical, and medical texts from across antiquity: poets, physicians, and philosophers contributed to an ever-growing lexicon to articulate their own and others' feelings. The essays within this volume uncover the expanding Greco-Roman vocabulary of pain, analyse the medical discussions on pain symptoms, and explore the religious reinterpretations of pain concepts in late antiquity.
Classical literature --- Pain in literature. --- Distress (Psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Littérature antique --- Souffrance --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans la littérature.
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ISBN: 0823288935 0823286924 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press,
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Thinking through Crisis turns to 1930s African American literature to offer a critical response to Trauma Theory. This theoretical discourse carries a nostalgia for "European Man" that limits its understanding of racial and class antagonisms. Consequently, its version of "bearing witness" yields a political passivity that cannot address the injustices of racism as they are linked to class conflict. Against the political passivity produced by this idealist approach, this book offers a materialist theory of trauma that develops concepts for identifying the agency that Black life produces amid social breakdown.
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