Elaine Scarry
#6,505
Most Influential Person Now
American academic and essayist
Elaine Scarry's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
Literature
Elaine Scarry's Degrees
- PhD English University of Connecticut
Why Is Elaine Scarry Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elaine Scarry 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.
Elaine Scarry's Published Works
Published Works
- The Body in Pain (2020) (1164)
- On Beauty and Being Just (1999) (502)
- Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (2003) (370)
- Dreaming by the Book (1999) (166)
- Memory, brain, and belief (2001) (159)
- Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons (1988) (80)
- Statistical Persons@@@The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World@@@Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane (1987) (69)
- Thinking in an Emergency (2011) (58)
- Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (1994) (53)
- Consent and the Body: Injury, Departure, and Desire (1990) (38)
- On Vivacity: The Difference between Daydreaming and Imagining-Under-Authorial-Instruction (1995) (30)
- The Return of the Beautiful: Morality, Pleasure, and the Value of Uncertainty (2000) (26)
- Among Schoolchildren: (2008) (22)
- Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom (2014) (21)
- Injury and the Structure of War (1985) (18)
- War and the Social Contract: Nuclear Policy, Distribution, and the Right to Bear Arms (1991) (15)
- Work and the Body in Hardy and Other Nineteenth-Century Novelists (1983) (15)
- Imagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium) (1997) (14)
- Rule of Law, Misrule of Men (2010) (11)
- The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century@@@Literature and The Body. Essays on Populations and Persons@@@La Revue des Sciences Humaines. (1989) (9)
- Poetry, Injury, and the Ethics of Reading (2014) (6)
- 11 Among Schoolchildren: The Use of Body Damage to Express Physical Pain (2008) (5)
- Fins de siècle : English poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990 (1995) (5)
- Science, Culture, Meaning, Values: A Dialogue (2001) (3)
- Speech Acts in Criminal Cases (2017) (2)
- Constitutional Narratives - War and the Social Contract: The Right to Bear Arms (1990) (2)
- A Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia) (2010) (1)
- The Instrumental Value of Beauty in the Pursuit of Justice (2014) (1)
- Willow-bark and red poppies: Advertising the remedies for physical pain (1985) (1)
- Watching and Authorizing the Gulf War (2018) (1)
- Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets (2016) (1)
- The Body Politic: Body, Language, and Power (1990) (1)
- The Character of the University Srinivas Aravamudan (2010) (0)
- FALL 2010 Schedule and Course Descriptions (2011) (0)
- Uphold the nuclear weapons test moratorium (2020) (0)
- TO LET SUFFERING SPEAK : CAN PEACEBUILDING OVERCOME THE UNREPRESENTABILITY OF SUFFERING ? (2015) (0)
- Violence and creation : The recovery of the body in the work of (2018) (0)
- Glass and clay : Proust and Gallé (2016) (0)
- 10.2. The Structure of War (2020) (0)
- Windburn on Planet Brontë (2021) (0)
- WHEN WE SPEAK IN EVERYDAY conversation about the imagination, we often attribute to it powers that are greater than ordinary sensation. But when we are asked to perform the concrete experiment of comparing an imagined (2016) (0)
- Chapter 5 On Philosophy and Human Rights (2017) (0)
- The Eternal Problem of Beauty's Return@@@Beauty Matters@@@On Beauty and Being Just@@@Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love@@@Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime (2003) (0)
- The floor of the world (2014) (0)
- The Structure of War: The Juxtaposition of Injured Bodies and Unanchored Issues (2019) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Elaine Scarry
What Schools Are Affiliated With Elaine Scarry?
Elaine Scarry is affiliated with the following schools: