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About Elaine Scarry
- Elaine Scarry (born June 30, 1946) is an American essayist and professor of English and American Literature and Language.
- She is the Walter M.
- Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.
- Her interests include Theory of Representation, the Language of Physical Pain, and Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science and the Law.
- She was formerly Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
- She is a recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.
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