Making Sense of Suffering: Theory, Practice, Representation / Edited by Bev Hogue; Anna Sugiyama.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hogue, Bev, editor.

Sugiyama, Anna, editor.

Series:

Probing the boundaries.

Probing the Boundaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Suffering may be universal, but it is not universally understood. In this collection, scholars from many nations and disciplines explore theoretical and practical approaches to understanding suffering as well as the ethics and effects of representing suffering in art and literature.

Contents:

""Front Cover""; ""Inside Cover""; ""Advisory Board""; ""ISBN""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1: Suffering in Theory""; ""Metaphysical Suffering, Metaphysics as Therapy""; ""The Ethical Fruitfulness of Nietzsche's View on Suffering""; ""The Difficult Ambiguity of the World: Suffering in the Context of Evolutionary Theology""; ""Does God Suffer? Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of Holy Saturday""; ""What is Sacrifice For? The Structure of Sacrifice in Jan Patocka's Phenomenology""; ""Post-Structuralist Social Critique and Emotional Instability:""

""Suffering in Silence: Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion on Suffering, Understanding and Language""""PART 2: Suffering in Practice""; ""The Music, Art and Ethics of Suffering""; ""The Karbala Tragedy and Suffering in Shia""; ""Understanding the Effects of Interrogational Torture""; ""The Health-within-Illness Experience: An Empowering Dialiectic of a New Self for Living in Harmony with Existence""; ""Research on Curative Speech Acts Observed through a Long-Term Initiative""; ""From Suffering to Hope and Faith: The Pragmatic Value of Inspirational Literature""

""PART 3: Suffering in Representation""""'The pains which I uncessantly sustain': Expressions of Suffering in Elizabethan Lyric Poetry""; ""'She had not spoken of wishing to die': Lizzie Siddal and the Ill-Fate of the Rejected Women""; ""Ethical Challenges when Reading Aesthetic Rape Scenes""; ""The Mysterious Ways of Suffering: A Reading of Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C. S. Lewis""; ""Remembering to Forget: Memory and Suffering in Mansfield Park""; ""The Power of Three: Tripling in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales and The Picture of Dorian Gray""

""'I can't let myself go': Piercing through Motherly Landscapes of Loss in A.S. Byatt's 'The July Ghost'""""Rhetoric and Resistance in Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days""; ""Suffering and War in Fiction: Ian McEwan's Atonement""; ""Making Sense of Verdun: Photography and Emotions during the First World War in France""; ""Bound and Undetermined: Kafka, Abraham and the Meaning of Suffering""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-060-X

OCLC:

891397121

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848880603 DOI