Hungering as Symbolic Language What Are We Saying When We Starve Ourselves |
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| Author:
| Pascual Soler, Nieves |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7734-3930-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Publisher: | Edwin Mellen Press, The
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $119.95 |
Book Description:
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This book is a study of hunger and hungry persons as a new form of cultural and emotional intensity, posing the subject from an unusual perspective: hunger as affect. Voluntary starvation can cause illness but also contains a positive, almost heroic dimension of renunciation and self-control through which the person is exalted as a human being.
This book is a study of hunger and hungry persons as a new form of cultural and emotional intensity, posing the subject from an unusual perspective: hunger as affect. Voluntary starvation can cause illness but also contains a positive, almost heroic dimension of renunciation and self-control through which the person is exalted as a human being.