Writing in Pain : Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial
ISBN: 9780230607231
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: Literature; Psychology;

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."

VAHEED RAMAZANI is Associate Professor of French, Tulane University.

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