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100 1  Nelson, Deborah,|d1962-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n2001039803|eauthor. 
245 10 Tough enough :|bArbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, 
       Weil /|cDeborah Nelson. 
264  1 Chicago :|bThe University of Chicago Press,|c2017. 
300    1 online resource 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction: tough enough -- Simone Weil: thinking 
       tragically in the age of trauma -- Hannah Arendt: irony 
       and atrocity -- Mary McCarthy: the aesthetic of the fact -
       - Susan Sontag: an-aesthetics and agency -- Diane Arbus: a
       feeling for the camera -- Joan Didion: the question of 
       self-pity. 
520 8  This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often 
       seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah 
       Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan
       Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape 
       straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an 
       affinity of style and philosophical viewpoint that derives
       from a shared attitude toward suffering. What Mary 
       McCarthy called a "cold eye" was not merely a personal 
       aversion to displays of emotion: it was an unsentimental 
       mode of attention that dictated both ethical positions and
       aesthetic approaches. 'Tough Enough' traces the careers of
       these women and their challenges to the pre-eminence of 
       empathy as 'the' ethical posture from which to examine 
       pain. Their writing and art reveal an adamant belief that 
       the hurts of the world must be treated concretely, 
       directly, and realistically, without recourse to either 
       melodrama or callousness. As Deborah Nelson shows, this 
       stance offers an important counter-tradition to the common
       postwar poles of emotional expressivity on the one hand 
       and cool irony on the other. Ultimately, in its insistence
       on facing reality without consolation or compensation, 
       this austere "school of the unsentimental" offers new ways
       to approach suffering in both its spectacular forms and 
       all of its ordinariness. 
588 0  Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed 
       March 27, 2017). 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
       Collection - North America 
600 10 Weil, Simone,|d1909-1943.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n78080924 
600 10 Arendt, Hannah,|d1906-1975.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n50023617 
600 10 Sontag, Susan,|d1933-2004.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
       /names/n79049274 
600 10 MacCarthy, Mary,|d1882-1953.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n87152433 
600 10 Arbus, Diane,|d1923-1971.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n82234005 
600 10 Didion, Joan.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n78089822 
600 17 Weil, Simone,|d1909-1943.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/27675 
600 17 Arendt, Hannah,|d1906-1975.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org
       /fast/1427224 
600 17 Sontag, Susan,|d1933-2004.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/34879 
600 17 MacCarthy, Mary,|d1882-1953.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/220754 
600 17 Arbus, Diane,|d1923-1971.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/105852 
600 17 Didion, Joan.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/28514 
650  0 Toughness (Personality trait)|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh85136241 
650  0 Aesthetics|xPsychological aspects.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2008117550 
650  0 Suffering in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85129639 
650  0 Suffering in art.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects
       /sh85129638 
650  7 Toughness (Personality trait)|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/1153107 
650  7 Aesthetics|xPsychological aspects.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/798713 
650  7 Suffering in literature.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/1137175 
650  7 Suffering in art.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1137173 
650  7 LITERARY CRITICISM|xAmerican|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 
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