Literature and the body : essays on populations and persons

Author(s)

• Scarry, Elaine

Bibliographic Information

Literature and the body : essays on populations and persons

edited by Elaine Scarry

（Selected papers from the English Institute / English Institute, 1986, new ser., no. 12）

Johns Hopkins University, 1990, c1988

Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Polemically set against the weightlessness of much recent discourse, this book explores the body as the ultimate testing ground for debates over language's ability to refer to the world.

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Details

• NCID: BA12270709
• ISBN:
  • 0801841097
• LCCN: 87046308
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: xxvii, 209 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR409.B63
  • DC19 : 820/.9/36
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Body, Human, in literature
  • LCSH : Fertility, Human, in literature
  • LCSH : Population in literature
  • LCSH : American literature -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00214992