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    On Beauty and Being Just

    Elaine Scarry

    Have we become beauty-blind? This title not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for…

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    Dreaming by the Book

    Elaine Scarry

    Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the…

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    Thinking in an Emergency

    Elaine Scarry

    Award-winning critic Elaine Scarry provides a vital new assessment of leadership during crisis that ensures the protection of democratic values.

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    Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom

    Elaine Scarry (Harvard University)

    From one of our leading social thinkers, a compelling case for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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    Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

    Elaine Scarry (Harvard University)

    Synthesizes textual analysis, literary criticism, and historiography in pursuit of the haunting call and recall of Shakespeare’s verse and that of his (now at last named) beloved friend –Dust jacket…

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    Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom

    Elaine Scarry (Harvard University)

    From one of our leading social thinkers, a compelling case for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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    Who Defended The Country?: A New Democracy Forum on Authoritarian versus Democratic Approaches to National Defense on 9/11

    Elaine Scarry

    Through a minute-by-minute analysis of the phone calls, official reports, responses, and reported actions of passengers on two hijacked flights, United Airlines 93 (which crashed in Pennsylvania) and American Airlines…

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    Resisting Representation

    Elaine Scarry (Professor of English, Professor of English, Harvard University)

    Resisting Representation brings together some of the essays by leading scholar Elaine Scarry.

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    Memory, Brain, and Belief

    The scientific research literature on memory is enormous, yet no single book has focused on the complex interrelationships of memory and belief. This book brings together scholars from neuroscience, cognitive…

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    The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

    Elaine Scarry (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)

    In this ground-breaking meditation on pain and the literary, philosophical, political, medical, and religious vocabularies used to describe it, Scarry analyzes physical pain within numerous contexts by examining a wide…

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    Eine Geschichte Des Korpers Im Schmerz. Theorien Von Elaine Scarry Und David B. Morris Im Vergleich

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    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Universitat Leipzig (Institut fur Theaterwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Eine Spur des Schmerzes und der Lust - der heilige Sebastian, 7 Quellen…

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    Nancy Spero - Torture of Women

    Torture of Women, Spero’s epic, 14 panels, 125-foot-long collage work, fuses startling imagery from ancient mythology with hand-printed and typewritten first-person testimonies of abuse–from ancient times through the present. This…

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