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Author Olstein, Lisa, 1972- author.

Title Pain studies / Lisa Olstein.

Publication Info. New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2020.

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  616.0472 OLSTEIN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 191 pages ; 19 cm
Summary "Pain Studies is a book-length lyric essay at the intersection of pain, perception, and language. Through the prism of migraine, Pain Studies episodically and idiosyncratically explores personal, cultural, medical, and literary histories of pain--how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it--and undertakes extended engagements with a range of sources including the trial testimony of Joan of Arc, the television show House, M.D., rhetorical attributes of pre-Socratic philosophy and mathematical proofs, essays by Virginia Woolf and Elaine Scar[r]y, and the perception-based work of artists Donald Judd and James Turrell. Written from and into its own urgencies of both form and content, it is in conversation with recent books by Maggie Nelson, Eula Biss, Sarah Manguso, and Leslie Jamison, among others." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189).
Subject Pain -- Patients -- Biography.
Pain perception.
Pain -- History.
Pain -- Social aspects.
Pain -- Psychological aspects.
Pain -- Philosophy.
Pain in literature.
Pain in art.
Pain. (OCoLC)fst01050382
Pain in art. (OCoLC)fst01050420
Pain in literature. (OCoLC)fst01050425
Pain perception. (OCoLC)fst01050429
Pain -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01050398
Pain -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01050403
Pain -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01050410
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Olstein, Lisa, 1972- author. Pain studies First edition. Bellevue Literary Press : New York, 2020 9781942658696 (DLC) 2019007332
ISBN 9781942658689 (trade paperback ; acid-free paper)
1942658680 (trade paperback ; acid-free paper)
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