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The wounded self : writing illness in twenty-first-century German literature /
In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes such writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to wri...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2018.
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| Series: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Autofiction, disgust, and trauma: negotiating vulnerable subject positions in Charlotte Roche's Schossgebete
- Looking beyond the self-reflecting the other: staring as a narrative device in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht
- Intertextuality and the transnational in Verena Stefan's Fremdschlafer: writing breast cancer from beyond the border
- Confronting cancer publicly: diary writing in extremis by Christoph Schlingensief and Wolfgang Herrndorf
- Conclusion: "und was dann": recent developments and research desiderata.