Reconstructing Pain and Joy

Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84718-519-8
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 465 Seiten

How are pain and joy constructed, articulated, represented, manipulated, and, ultimately, socially determined? This is the first collection of essays that investigates how such multi-faceted and subjective domains of human experience as pain and joy—which combine physical, psychological, private, public, conceptual, and cultural dimensions—are represented and reconstructed in language, literature, and culture. Adopting a genuinely interdisciplinary approach, the book is organized around themes and divided into four parts which blend literary, cultural, and linguistic examinations of theoretical angles, socio-cultural appropriations, stage and screen constructions, and the body. Contributors include eminent scholars from a variety of fields—Catherine Belsey, Declan Kiberd, Zoltán Kövecses, and Elaine Scarry—whose work informs a current academic conversation also developed by other authors in the volume from original angles. With its multi-cultural focus, cross-historical, and interdisciplinary scope—featuring studies of literature, language, art, philosophy, religion, theatre, film, music, television, the internet—this book not only surveys past and contemporary theoretical and critical grounds, but also anticipates future developments: an invaluable resource for all scholars and students exploring the representation of joy and/or pain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Despotopoulou, Anna

Lascaratou, Chryssoula

Ifantidou, Elly

Über Autor(innen)

Chryssoula Lascaratou is Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens. Her main research interests and areas of publication include the analysis of aspects of Greek and English syntax. Her long-term linguistic inquiry of the construal of pain in Greek from both a functional and a cognitive perspective comprises two articles and the book The Language of Pain: Expression or Description? (2007).

Anna Despotopoulou is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens. Her research focuses on Victorian, Modernist, and contemporary fiction, Henry James, and feminist theory, and she has published articles in collections of essays and international journals like The Review of English Studies, Cambridge Quarterly, Yearbook of English Studies, Papers on Language and Literature.

Elly Ifantidou is Assistant Professor of Language and Linguistics in the Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens. Her research interests are pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and linguistic development, academic discourse. Her recent publications include Evidentials and Relevance (2001) and articles in edited volumes and journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Cognition, Pragmatics.