Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self Through Writing

by Judith Harris

Book Overview

A deeply personal yet universal work, Signifying Pain applies the principles of therapeutic writing to such painful life experiences as mental illness, suicide, racism, domestic abuse, and even genocide. Probing deep into the bedrock of literary imagination, Judith Harris traces the odyssey of a diverse group of writers--John Keats, Derek Walcott, Jane Kenyon, Michael S. Harper, Robert Lowell, and Ai, as well as student writers--who have used their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791456838
• ISBN13: 9780791456835
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"