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Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction.
The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two culture...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in contemporary literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The naturalistic turn, the syndrome, and the rise of the neo-phenomenological novel / Patricia Waugh
- Mapping the syndrome novel / Stephen J. Burn
- From syndrome to sincerity : Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision / Adam Kelly
- "We learned to tell our story walking:" Tourette's and urban space in Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn / James Peacock
- The pathologies of mobility : time travel as syndrome in The time traveller's wife, La jetee and Twelve monkeys / Brian Baker
- Syndrome, symptom, and trauma chains in American pre- and post-9/11 novels / Bent Sorensen
- Mind and brain : the representation of trauma in Martin Amis' Yellow dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday / Nick Bentley
- "Two-way traffic"? syndrome as symbol in Richard Powers' The echo maker / T.J. Lustig
- "I wanted unheimlich ... but of the right kind. Strangeness and strangerness without the blank despair:" trauma and travel in the works of Jenny Diski / Joanna Price
- The human condition? / Martyn Bracewell
- A psychiatrist's opinion of the neuronovel / Lisetta Lovett.