Author: Elaine Scarry

Cited by

• Zadie Smith (1)
  • IN: On Beauty (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed."
    FROM: On Beauty and Being Just, (1999), Book, US
• Slavenka Drakulić (1)
  • IN: Frida's Bed (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate reversion to a state anterior to language, to sounds and cries a human being makes before language is learned.
    FROM: The Body in Pain, (1985), Book, US