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Writing Pain: Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial
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Writing Pain: Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial
Current price: $109.99
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Writing Pain: Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial
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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."