Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry | |
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| Born | June 30, 1946 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Chatham College University of Connecticut |
| Genre | Editor, Essays, Literary criticism |
| Notable awards | Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism |
Elaine Scarry (born June 30, 1946) is an American essayist and professor of English and American Literature and Language. She is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Her interests include Theory of Representation, the Language of Physical Pain, and Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science and the Law. She was formerly Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.
Life
She is the author of The Body in Pain which is known as a definitive study of pain and inflicting pain.[1] She argues that physical pain leads to destruction and the unmaking of the human world, whereas human creation at the opposite end of the spectrum leads to the making of the world.
In 1998, she delivered the essay 'On Beauty and Being Just', for the
Her 1999 study, Dreaming by the Book won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.
In 2014, she published a book about
Hypotheses on plane crashes
In 1998, Elaine Scarry authored an article The Fall of
Education
- A.B., 1968, Chatham College
- A.M., Ph.D., 1974, University of Connecticut
Honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1987), Philosophy[4]
- Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism (2000) for Dreaming by the Book[5]
- Elected Member, American Philosophical Society (2013)[6]
Works
Books
- Naming thy name : cross talk in Shakespeare's sonnets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2016. ISBN 9780374279936.
- Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom. W. W. Norton. 2014. ISBN 9780393089929.
- Thinking in an Emergency. W. W. Norton. 2011. ISBN 9780393081046.
- Rule of Law, Misrule of Men. Boston Review Books. 2010. ISBN 9780262265775.
- Who Defended the Country? A New Democracy Forum on Authoritarian versus Democratic Approaches to National Defense on 9/11. Beacon Press. 2003. ISBN 9780807004579.
- On Beauty and Being Just, Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780691048758
- Dreaming by the Book. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1999. ISBN 9780691070766.
- Resisting Representation. Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN 9780198025023.
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- Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, ISBN 9780801836046
- The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford University Press. 1985. ISBN 9780195049961.
Essays
- The Fall of EgyptAir 990 (The New York Review of Books, 2000)
- The Fall of TWA 800: The Possibility of Electromagnetic Interference (The New York Review of Books, 1998)
- On Beauty and Being Just
Editor
- Daniel L. Schacter; Elaine Scarry, eds. (2002). Memory, Brain and Belief. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674007192.
- Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, ISBN 9780801849282
References
- ^ Pollock, Della. Telling Bodies, Performing Birth. 1999: Columbia University Press. p. 120.
- ^ Richard Rhodes, The New York Times, March 2014, 21: [1]
- ^ "Concerning the Fall of TWA 800, Swissair 111 and EgyptAir 990: The Unfriendly Skies Scenario," Didier de Fontaine. http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/faculty/deFontaine/CommentaryIII.html Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Elaine Scarry". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on May 7, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- ^ "Elaine Scarry and Philip Fisher Share Capote Literary Award". Archived from the original on September 3, 2006. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
- ^ "Newly Elected - April 2013 | American Philosophical Society". Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
- ^ "Honorary Doctors of the Faculty of Theology - Uppsala University, Sweden". June 8, 2023.
External links
- New York Review of Books: Elaine Scarry
- Profile in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Nathan Schneider
