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Tables of Contents for Suffering and the Remedy of Art
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
 
Introduction
1
10
I. SUFFERING IN TRUTH AND THEORY
11
48
1. To Give Suffering a Language
11
12
Literature and Medicine
Arthur Kleinman's Case of the Little Girl
2. Coverings/Apertures: The Invisibility of Suffering
23
18
Barthes on Photography
The Newsweek Cover of May 10, 1993
P.J. Griffiths' Photograph
3. Suffering as Metaphor
41
18
Nietzsche's Remedy of Art
Freud's Narrative Cure
II. TRAGIC SUFFERING
59
46
4. Job or the Meaninglessness of Suffering
59
18
Job's Silence
Job Speaking
God Speaking
Job's Restitution
5. Antigone or the Secrecy of Suffering
77
18
Antigone's Suffering
Kierkegaard's Antigone
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's Antigone
Antigone's Suicide
6. Lear or the Causelessness of Suffering
95
10
Suffering Love
III. SUFFERING AND THE REMEDY OF ART
105
104
7. Matthew Arnold: The Modern Painful
105
10
Modern Problems
Beyond Tragedy
8. Robinson Jeffers' Aesthetic of Pain
115
12
Nature
The Shining
The Unavailability of Tragedy
9. Lyric Suffering in W. H. Auden and Irving Feldman
127
12
Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts"
Feldman's "Bystander at the Massacre"
10. Paul Celan: Suffering in Translation
139
18
Edward Hirsch's "Paul Celan..."
Celan's German
Atemwende
Translating Celan
11. The Failure of the Remedy of Art
157
14
Sylvia Plath's Ariel
Robert Lowell's Day by Day
12. The Matter and Spirit of Death
171
14
Sharon Old's The Father
Tess Gallagher's Moon Crossing Bridge
13. Suffering and Sainthood
185
6
Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm
14. The Remedy of Writing
191
12
Raymond Carver's "Blackbird Pie"
15. The Redemption of Remembering
203
6
Denis Donoghue's Warrenpoint
Afterword
209
4
Index
213