Elaine Scarry

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Elaine Scarry teaches at Harvard University, where she is the Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and a Senior Fellow at Society of Fellows. She is the author of The Body in Pain (1985), On Beauty and Being Just (1999), Dreaming by the Book (1999), and Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing between Democracy and Doom (2016).

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Imagining Color

By Elaine Scarry

Acclaimed theorist and scholar Elaine Scarry uncovers profound connections between color and our intuitions about mind, spirit, and the immortal through readings of works by Proust, Woolf, and Murasaki, offering fresh insights into the interplay between language and the mysterious image-making...

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