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The Neuro-poetics of Pain: Human Physiology in Haller and Lessing

Description:

This dissertation aims to redefine the concept of pain as it appears in literary studies and demonstrate how the new definition garners insight into the interwovenness of literature and physiology in the mid-eighteenth century. It challenges the claim that pain is opposed to language by adopting a new materialist concept...

Keyword:

Nature and Culture, Language and the Body, Nerves as Medium, Derrida, Sensibility and Irritability, and New Materialism

Subject:

German literature, Science history, and Aesthetics

Creator:

Berjan, Sandra

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

04/28/2020

Date Modified:

04/28/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14951 and etdadmin_upload_708357