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Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of erôs and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.

Pain in literature --- Pleasure in literature --- Classical literature --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Pain in literature. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Pleasure in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Pain studies, both in exact sciences and in the humanities, are a fast-shifting field. This volume condenses a spectrum of recent views of pain through the lens of humanistic studies. Methodologically, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of the questions pertaining to the accessibility of pain (physical or emotional) to understanding and of the possible influence of suffering on the enhancement of knowledge in private experience or public sphere. Undeterred by the widespread belief that pain cannot be expressed in language and that it is intransmissible to others, the authors of the essays in the collection show that the replicability of records and narratives of human experience provides a basis for the kind of empathetic attention, dialogue, and contact that can help us to register the pain of another and understand its conditions and contexts. Needless to say, the improvement of this understanding may also help map the ways for the ethics of response to (and help for) pain. Whereas the authors of the volume tend to share the view of pain as a totally negative phenomenon (the position taken in Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain ), they hold this view applicable mainly to the attitudes to the pain of others and the imperative of minimise the causes of another’s suffering. They also consider this view to be culturally and temporally circumscribed. The volume suggests that one’s own personal experience of suffering, along with the awareness of the seriality of such experience among fellow sufferers, can be conducive to emotional and intellectual growth. The reading of literature dealing with pain can lead to similar results through vicariously experienced suffering, whose emotional corollaries and intellectual consequences may be conveyed through artistic rather than discursive means. The distinctive features of the volume are that it processes these issues in a historicising way, deploying the history of the ideas of pain from the Middle Ages to the present day, and that it makes use of the methodology of different disciplines to do so, arriving to similar conclusions through, as it were, different paths. The disciplines include analytic philosophy, historiography, history of science, oral history, literary studies, and political science.

Pain --- Pain in literature. --- Pain. --- Aches --- Emotions --- Pleasure --- Senses and sensation --- Symptoms --- Analgesia --- Suffering --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Psychology.

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El cambio del nuevo siglo supone un punto de inflexión para la sociedad española con respecto a su propio pasado. Desde el movimiento para la recuperación de la memoria histórica se reivindica la apertura de fosas comunes para así llevar a cabo los miles de procesos de duelo individuales que hasta entonces no se habían podido realizar. Desde la literatura, se busca corregir el déficit de memoria arrojando luz sobre episodios e historias olvidados o desconocidos en una suerte de exhumación literaria. El nexo de estos aspectos es el punto de partida para el presente estudio: donde convergen una literatura influenciada por tendencias socio-políticas con la noción de que existen tareas pendientes, entre las que está el duelo. ¿Qué implicación tiene la existencia de miles de duelos inconclusos individuales para el el colectivo? ¿Se puede hablar de un duelo colectivo? Y más allá de la recuperación de historias, ¿qué otros modelos nos puede ofrecer la literatura para relacionarnos con las ausencias dejadas por las pérdidas pasadas que, con el paso del tiempo, ya no son propiamente nuestras? El estudio propone un prototipo literario —narrativas postraumáticas de duelo persistente— que busca redefinir mediante la narrativa nuestra relación en el presente con las pérdidas sufridas en el pasado. Este hipotético duelo se plantea en términos colectivos y postfreudianos: esto es, un duelo que no busque resolución, sino que persista como recordatorio continuo de las pérdidas en el pasado y que sirva como fuente de una relación ética y afectiva con ese pasado desde el presente.

Literatura española --- Dolor --- lemac --- Spanish literature --- Pain in literature. --- Temas, motivos. --- En la literatura. --- Themes, motives.

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"Why do African writers choose to describe pain in their novels, memoirs and travelogues? What purpose could such descriptions serve? And do they fall into the danger of simply re-confirming negative stereotypes about Africa as an inevitably pained continent? Perceiving Pain in African Literature argues that the literary text has a particular role to play in contesting and re-working the personal, social and political meanings of pain. Drawing on fiction and life-writing published in English and French over the last forty years, this book explores the complexities of literature's invitation to imagine pain.Themes such as pain and meaning, literature as testimony, conflict writing, genocide and human rights are explored in relation to primary texts from West Africa, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Southern Africa. Authors including Yvonne Vera, J.M.Coetzee, Ahmadou Kourouma, Véronique Tadjo and Aminatta Forna are discussed alongside theoretical insights from medical anthropology, cultural theory, postcolonial studies and global literature"--

African fiction (English) --- Pain in literature. --- African fiction (French) --- Postcolonialism. --- Literary criticism --- History and criticism. --- General. --- African. --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- French.