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Embodied narration : illness, death and dying in modern culture /
Do liminal embodied experiences such as illness, death and dying affect literary form? In recent years, the concept of embodiment has been theorized from various perspectives. Gender studies have been concerned with the cultural implications of embodiment, arguing to move away from viewing the body...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcipt Verlag,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Aging studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The concept of embodiment in modern culture / Heike Hartung
- Embodied narrations of the end of life: toward a thanatological biopolitics of modern culture / Heike Hartung
- "About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters": human pain and the crucible of representation / Rüdiger Kunow
- How we imagine living with dying / Margaret Morganroth Gullette
- Disgust in Samuel Beckett's Molloy / Sarah J. Ablett
- "Blue with age": dis-and dys- appearance of the body in Eudora Welty's "A worn path" / Ellen Matlok-Ziemann
- Growing bodies: narrating death and sexuality in contemporary young adult fiction / Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld
- When mother is dying: Mijenko Jerocić's Kin / Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl
- Storytelling in the age of AIDS: narrative possibilities and the exigencies of loss in Dale Peck's Martin and John: a novel / Ariane Schröder
- Realism and the soul: the philosophy of Virginia Woolf's illness / Vira Sachenko
- The illness is you: figurative language in David Foster Wallace's short story "The planet trillaphon" / Anita Wohlmann
- Reading the assault on the lived body in Hilary Mantel's Giving up the ghost / Monika Class.