The body in pain : the making and unmaking of the world / Elaine Scarry.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

vii, 385 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Structure of torture : the conversion of real pain into the fiction power -- The structure of war : the juxtaposition of injured bodies and unanchored issues -- Pain and imaging -- The structure of belief and its modulation into material making : body and voice in the Judeo-Christian scriptures and the writings of Marx -- The interior structure of the artifact.