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The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Dillane, Fionnuala; Pine, Emilie. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 283 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports of battles and executions to stage and screen representations of sexual violence, produced in response to different historical circumstances in terms that confirm our understanding of how pain – whether endured or inflicted, witnessed or remediated – is culturally coded.
Pain is as open to ongoing redefinition as the Ireland ... Read more
This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports of battles and executions to stage and screen representations of sexual violence, produced in response to different historical circumstances in terms that confirm our understanding of how pain – whether endured or inflicted, witnessed or remediated – is culturally coded.
Pain is as open to ongoing redefinition as the Ireland ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319313870
SKU
V9783319313870
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Ref
99-15
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Fionnuala Dillane is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is author of Before George Eliot: Marian Evans in the Periodical Press, joint winner of the 2014 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize. Naomi McAreavey is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published widely on the 1641 rebellion, and her edition ... Read more
Reviews for The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)
“It provides novel approaches to the study of the relationship between body, pain and historical memory. … It is undisputable that this book provides a valuable and interdisciplinary variety of theoretical and methodological approaches that fill a gap in bibliography about Irish cultural history.” (Shadia Abdel-Rahman Téllez, Review of Irish Studies in Europe – RISE, Vol. 2 (1-2), March, 2018) ... Read more