Her 1999 study, Dreaming by the Book won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. In 1998, she delivered the essay 'On Beauty and Being Just', for the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, an inquiry into the disparagement of beauty in western civilization in the twentieth century. She argues that physical pain leads to destruction and the unmaking of the human world, whereas human creation at the opposite end of the spectrum leads to the making of the world. She is the author of The Body in Pain which is known as a definitive study of pain and inflicting pain. She is a recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. She was formerly Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include Theory of Representation, the Language of Physical Pain, and Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science and the Law. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Truman Capote Award for Literary CriticismĮlaine Scarry (born June 30, 1946) is an American essayist and professor of English and American Literature and Language.
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