Writing in Pain: Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial

Ramazani, V.

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."

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2007-10-08

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230600652

DOI: 10.1057/9780230607231

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 189