{"product_id":"resisting-representation-9780195089646","title":"Resisting Representation","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenowned scholar Elaine Scarrys book  The Body in Pain  has been called by Susan Sontag \"extraordinary...large-spirited  heroically truthful.\" The Los Angeles Times called it \"brilliant  ambitious  and controversial.\" Now Oxford has collected some of Scarrys most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius  through the nineteenth-century novel  to twentieth-century advertising.  qWe often assume that all areas of experience are equally available for representation. On the contrary  these essays present discussions of experiences and concepts that challenge  defeat  or block representation. Physical pain  physical labor  the hidden reflexes of cognition and its judgments about the coherence or incoherence of the world are all phenomena that test the resources of language. Using primarily literary sources (works by Hardy  Beckett  Boethius  Thackeray  and others)  Scarry also draws on painting  medical advertising  and philosophic dialogue to probe the limitations of expression and representation.  Resisting Representation celebrates language. It looks at the problematic areas of expression not at the moment when representation is resisted  but at the moment when that resistance is at last overcome  thus suggesting a domain of plenitude and inclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646937030709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195089642","price":43.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195089646.jpg?v=1781682290","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/resisting-representation-9780195089646","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}