Writing in Pain: Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial
Description
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."
Keywords
FRENCH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_19TH CENTURYFRANCE_HISTORY_19TH CENTURY
2007Book
Author(s)Vaheed Ramazani
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230600652
LanguageEnglish
