Elaine Scarry

Citations

• “Beauty brings copies of itself into being.”

• “How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.”

• “When we come upon beautiful things...they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.”

• “It is the intense pain that destroys a person’s self and world, a destruction experienced spatially as either the contraction of the universe down to the immediate vicinity of the body or as the body swelling to fill the entire universe.”

• “Physical pain has no voice, but when it at last finds a voice, it begins to tell a story.”

Les livres de Elaine Scarry dans l'ordre

Les livres de Elaine Scarry dans l'ordre de parution, de Dreaming by the Book (1957) à Naming Thy Name (2016).

1. 1Dreaming by the BookDreaming by the Book1957
2. 2The Body in PainThe Body in Pain1985
3. 3Literature and the BodyLiterature and the Body1988
4. 4Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 19Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990 (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)1994
5. 5Resisting RepresentationResisting Representation1994
6. 6Fins-de-siècleFins-de-siècle1995
   Ce qu'il contient (4)

   • 1590s. Fin-de-siècle Renaissance England
   • 1690s. Unturning the Century : The Missing Decade of the 1690s
   • 1790s. The Literal World of the English Della Cruscans
   • 1890s, 1990s. Fin-de-siècle Lyric : W.B. Yeats and Jorie Graham
7. 7Memory, Brain, and BeliefMemory, Brain, and Belief1999
8. 8On Beauty and Being JustOn Beauty and Being Just1999
9. 9Who Defended the Country? A New Democracy Forum on AuthoritaWho Defended the Country? A New Democracy Forum on Authoritarian Versus Democratic Approaches to National Defense on 9/11 (New Democracy Forum)2003
10. 10Rule of Law, Misrule of MenRule of Law, Misrule of Men2010
11. 11Thinking in an EmergencyThinking in an Emergency2011
12. 12Thermonuclear MonarchyThermonuclear Monarchy2013
13. 13Naming Thy NameNaming Thy Name2016
    Ce qu'il contient (7)

    • Spellbound
    • The Birthplace of Shakespeare's Sonnets
    • A Day to Regret
    • Brief Names, Beloved Names: Hal, Hyella, Hen
    • The Rival Poet
    • Last Names
    • An Afterward About Afterward