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Rather than discovering an "existing mental scheme" that enables his articulation of inexpressible grief, Sol articulates through his "mute scream" the very inexpressibility of that grief.
Traumatic experience and the representation of nature in the novel ... by Johnson, Michael K. / Literature-Film Quarterly
Ultimately, she says, the inexpressibility of great distress in simple verbal exposition leads to a "wider frame of invention.
You got a right to the tree of life: African American spirituals and ... by Harding, Rachel Elizabeth / Cross Currents
Rhetoric does not create the same emotional response as seeing pain and death, a truism that Elaine Scarry has theorized by arguing for the inexpressibility of pain: not merely that it is difficult to define but that because "it takes no object it, more than any other phenomenon, resists objectification in language.
'"Now wole I a newe game begynne": staging suffering in King Lear, ... by Groves, Beatrice / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
 
 
 
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