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Product Description: How do we conceptualize the relationship between suffering, art, and aesthetics from within the broader framework of social, cultural, and political thought today? This book brings together a range of intellectuals from the social sciences and humanities to speak to theoretical debates around the questions of suffering in art and suffering and art...read more
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9781137426079 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 10, 2014, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: How do we conceptualize the relationship between suffering, art, and aesthetics from within the broader framework of social, cultural, and political thought today?
Product Description: In a moving intervention into Romantic-era depictions of the dead and wounded, Philip Shaw's timely study directs our gaze to the neglected figure of the common soldier. How suffering and sentiment were portrayed in a variety of visual and verbal media is Shaw's particular concern, as he examines a wide range of print and visual media, from paintings to sketches to political prose and anti-war poetry, and from writings on culture and aesthetics to graphic satires and early photographs...read more
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9780754664925 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In a moving intervention into Romantic-era depictions of the dead and wounded, Philip Shaw's timely study directs our gaze to the neglected figure of the common soldier.
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9781403991188, titled "Pain: A Cultural History" | Palgrave Macmillan, October 2, 2012, cover price $46.00
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9780263131208, titled "The Golden Mask" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | also contains The Golden Mask
Product Description: Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Baconâs paintings and Robert Mapplethorpeâs photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplinesâincluding religious studies, gender and queer studies, psychoanalysis, art history, and film theoryâEcce Homo explores the complex, ambiguous meanings of the enduring figure of the male-body-in-pain...read more
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9780226074696 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 8, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Baconâs paintings and Robert Mapplethorpeâs photographs to the battered heroes of action movies.
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9780226074702 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 8, 2011, cover price $38.00
Product Description: This book suggests that a listening to suffering may profit from a literary hearing, and vice versa. It is not only that literature tells of suffering but that suffering may tell us something about the nature of literature. The author examines works and texts that range from medicine to literature, philosophy to photography, prose to poetry, and from Antigone to W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780791432631 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: This book suggests that a listening to suffering may profit from a literary hearing, and vice versa.
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9780791432648 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This book suggests that a listening to suffering may profit from a literary hearing, and vice-versa.
Hardcover:
9780263131208 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | also contains Pain: A Cultural History
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9780373115372 | Harlequin Books, March 1, 1993, cover price $2.89 | About this edition: The Golden Mask by Donald, Robyn
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