Scarry’s (The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World, Oxford, New
York, 1985) broke crucial ground in examining the antagonisms between pain,
embodiment and language, and the isolating effects of pain as experience. This
paper submits Scarry’s claim that extreme pain destroys language, evades
mediation, and isolates the subject to critical scrutiny, arguing instead that
pain is a semio... hiện toàn bộ