Agony for Others
On Literature and Pain
$99.04
- Paperback
254 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2026
Summary
Agony for Others investigates the phenomenological, rhetorical, and political challenges of representing pain in literature. Pain cries vary between cultural and linguistic groups, and pain expression (such as grimacing or crying) can likewise vary in quality and intensity from person to person, affected by disability, temperament, and past experiences with pain, as well as the experiencer’s own understanding of what that pain is and what it means. Jessica Colangelo explores pain’s r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780472058402 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0472058401 |
| Author: | Jessica Colangelo |
| Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press |
| Imprint: | The University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 254 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability |
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Critics Review
“Agony for Others is a fantastic study of pain that offers novel contributions to appreciating the meaning and complexity of pain in human experience. Colangelo is filling a significant gap in the literature at the intersection of pain studies and literary studies.”
– Joel Michael Reynolds, Georgetown University“Agony for Others is an ambitious and wide-ranging book that brings the study of pain more fully into conversation with disability issues through readings of works by Virginia Woolf, Elie Weisel, James Baldwin, Sarah Kane, Antonin Artaud, among others, to offer a framework for understanding the ways agony is experienced and expressed.”
– Michael R. Davidson, University of California San DiegoJessica Colangelo
Jessica Colangelo is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Guelph. She is the author of Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature.
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