Quote by: Barbara Herrnstein Smith

... an impression of inescapable noise or acute disorder, a rush of adrenalin, sensations of alarm, a sense of unbalance or chaos, residual feeling of nausea and anxiety. These are the forms of bodily distress that occur when one's ingrained, taken-for-granted sense of how certain things are - and thus presumably will be and in some sense should be - is suddenly or insistently confronted by something very much at odds with it.


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Author Bio


  • NameBarbara Herrnstein Smith
  • DescriptionAmerican academic
  • Born1932
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLiterary Critic
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship