Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
1 appearances
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Edition 5 (2000) Winner
Elaine Scarry
エレイン・スカリー
Erain Sukarī
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1946-06-30 （Unknown）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Harvard University (current) → University of Pennsylvania (former)
Career
- Occupations
- essayist, Professor of English and American Literature and Language, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value
- Active Years
- 1974-
- Affiliations
- Harvard University
- Memberships
- American Philosophical Society
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatham College | — | — | A.B. | — | United States |
| University of Connecticut | — | — | A.M., Ph.D. | — | United States |
Chatham College
Degree:
A.B.
Year of Graduation:
1968
Country:
United States
University of Connecticut
Degree:
A.M., Ph.D.
Year of Graduation:
1974
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism | Dreaming by the Book | — | Truman Capote Trust | 受賞 |
| 1987 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | Philosophy | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2013 | Elected Member, American Philosophical Society | — | — | American Philosophical Society | 選出 |
| 2018 | Honorary Doctorate | — | — | Uppsala University | 授与 |
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
2000
Work:
Dreaming by the Book
Organization:
Truman Capote Trust
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1987
Category:
Philosophy
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Elected Member, American Philosophical Society
2013
Organization:
American Philosophical Society
Result:
選出
Honorary Doctorate
2018
Organization:
Uppsala University
Result:
授与
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
1985 Literary criticismDefinitive study of pain and inflicting pain, arguing physical pain destroys the human world while creation makes it.
paincreation and destructiontheory of representation
On Beauty and Being Just
1999 EssayInquiry into the disparagement of beauty in 20th-century Western civilization from Tanner Lectures.
beautyjustice
Dreaming by the Book
1999 Literary criticismStudy on the structure of dreaming through reading.
dreamingimagination
Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom
2014 Political theoryExplores political consequences of limiting nuclear weapon control to few individuals.
nuclear weaponsdemocracy
Bibliography
- The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
- Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons
- Resisting Representation
- On Beauty and Being Just
- Dreaming by the Book
- Who Defended the Country?
- Rule of Law, Misrule of Men
- Thinking in an Emergency
- Thermonuclear Monarchy
- Naming thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Philosophical essays exploring pain and languageDetailed analytical and theoretical examination
- Recurring Motifs
- painbeautycreation and destructionnuclear threat
Legacy
Influential American literary critic known for works on pain, aesthetics, and nuclear weapons; Walter M. Cabot Professor at Harvard.
Trivia
- Authored controversial articles hypothesizing electromagnetic interference caused plane crashes like TWA 800 and EgyptAir 990, criticized as 'voodoo science'.