Suffering and the Remedy of Art

Suffering and the Remedy of ArtThis wide ranging, interdisciplinary study of suffering and literature examines how literature can give expression to the essentially wordless reality of suffering. 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

Surveying and assessing competing critical approaches to Chaucer's work

the conceptual artists and photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher have included grain elevators in their documentation of industrial structures in Europe and North America

this version of Dracula is simply sensational

The author takes readers on a journey to recapture their passion

In the late 1950s

Ricci wrote a long account of all his journeys and reworked a series of ninety plates into striking form

on each of Joyce's works

Rector Kroll

and reassess their political engagements and the movements in which they are involved

even after age 40

consequent competition in land use

Provides direction and tools for conducting historical research