Writing in Pain : Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial
by
V. Ramazani
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0230600654
ISBN-13
9780230600652
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 8th, 2007
Print length
189 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 13.80 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
EuropeFranceLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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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."
Bringing poststructuralist theories of discourse into dialogue with biologically and culturally informed models of pain and affect, this book explores the representation of traumatic historical events such as war and revolution in literary texts by Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Zola. Focusing on the rising industrial capitalism of early modern France, Vaheed Ramanzani considers how the patterns of thought and practice developed during that period inflect a contemporary "culture of denial" and critiques the symbiosis between everyday forms of language and mass irruptions of violence.
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