Fictions of Dementia : : Narrative Modes of Presenting Dementia in Anglophone Novels / / Susanne Katharina Christ.
Taking its cues from both classical and post-classical narratologies, this study explores both forms and functions of the representation of dementia in Anglophone fictions. Initially, dementia is conceptualised as a narrative-epistemological paradox: The more those affected know what it is like to h...
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Christ, Susanne Katharina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fictions of Dementia : Narrative Modes of Presenting Dementia in Anglophone Novels / Susanne Katharina Christ. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (XV, 524 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory , 1612-8427 ; 82 Diss. Gießen/Graz 2021. Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Sigla -- 1 Introduction: Cultural and Literary Fictions of Dementia -- 2 Narrative Modes for the Representation of Dementia -- 3 Elucidating-explaining Dementia, Showing Family Relations, and Highlighting the Power of Ambiguity in Self-Narrated Dementia in Emma Healey’s Elizabeth Is Missing (2014) -- 4 Showing Caring and Coping, Exploring the Limits of Memory and Knowledge, and Celebrating Imagination in the Secondarily Affected Character Narration in Stefan Merrill Block’s The Story of Forgetting (2008) -- 5 Probing Character Proximity, Staging Indeterminacy and Reflecting upon Narrative in the Multi-perspectival Affected Character Narration in Naomi Kruger’s May (2018) -- 6 Integrating Medical Knowledge, Educating Readers, and Shedding a More Positive Light on Life with Dementia in the Inspective Non-Character Narration in Lisa Genova’s Still Alice (2007) -- 7 Results of the Textual Analyses in the Light of the Model of Narrative Modes and Three Hypotheses on Functions -- 8 Conclusion: Cultural Functions of Dementia Fictions -- List of Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Taking its cues from both classical and post-classical narratologies, this study explores both forms and functions of the representation of dementia in Anglophone fictions. Initially, dementia is conceptualised as a narrative-epistemological paradox: The more those affected know what it is like to have dementia, the less they can tell about it. Narrative fiction is the only discourse that provides an imaginative glimpse at the subjective experience of dementia in language. The narratological modelling of four ‘narrative modes’ elaborates how the paradox becomes productive in fiction: Depending on the narrative perspective taken, but also on the type of narration, the technique for representing consciousness and the epistemic strategy of narrating dementia, the respective narrative modes come with different prerequisites and possibilities for narrating dementia. The analysis of four contemporary Anglophone dementia fictions based on the developed model reveals their potential functions: Fiction allows readers to learn about the challenges of dementia, grants them perspective-taking, it trains cognitive flexibility, and explores the meaning of memory, knowledge, narrative and imagination, and thus also offers trajectories of a cultural coping with dementia. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023) Dementia in literature. English fiction History and criticism. Ageing Studies. human consciousness. illness narratives. narrative turn. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1 9783110766820 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English 9783110993752 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 9783110993738 ZDB-23-DKU EPUB 9783110789874 print 9783110789751 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789805 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110789805 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110789805/original |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Sigla -- 1 Introduction: Cultural and Literary Fictions of Dementia -- 2 Narrative Modes for the Representation of Dementia -- 3 Elucidating-explaining Dementia, Showing Family Relations, and Highlighting the Power of Ambiguity in Self-Narrated Dementia in Emma Healey’s Elizabeth Is Missing (2014) -- 4 Showing Caring and Coping, Exploring the Limits of Memory and Knowledge, and Celebrating Imagination in the Secondarily Affected Character Narration in Stefan Merrill Block’s The Story of Forgetting (2008) -- 5 Probing Character Proximity, Staging Indeterminacy and Reflecting upon Narrative in the Multi-perspectival Affected Character Narration in Naomi Kruger’s May (2018) -- 6 Integrating Medical Knowledge, Educating Readers, and Shedding a More Positive Light on Life with Dementia in the Inspective Non-Character Narration in Lisa Genova’s Still Alice (2007) -- 7 Results of the Textual Analyses in the Light of the Model of Narrative Modes and Three Hypotheses on Functions -- 8 Conclusion: Cultural Functions of Dementia Fictions -- List of Works Cited -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Sigla -- 1 Introduction: Cultural and Literary Fictions of Dementia -- 2 Narrative Modes for the Representation of Dementia -- 3 Elucidating-explaining Dementia, Showing Family Relations, and Highlighting the Power of Ambiguity in Self-Narrated Dementia in Emma Healey’s Elizabeth Is Missing (2014) -- 4 Showing Caring and Coping, Exploring the Limits of Memory and Knowledge, and Celebrating Imagination in the Secondarily Affected Character Narration in Stefan Merrill Block’s The Story of Forgetting (2008) -- 5 Probing Character Proximity, Staging Indeterminacy and Reflecting upon Narrative in the Multi-perspectival Affected Character Narration in Naomi Kruger’s May (2018) -- 6 Integrating Medical Knowledge, Educating Readers, and Shedding a More Positive Light on Life with Dementia in the Inspective Non-Character Narration in Lisa Genova’s Still Alice (2007) -- 7 Results of the Textual Analyses in the Light of the Model of Narrative Modes and Three Hypotheses on Functions -- 8 Conclusion: Cultural Functions of Dementia Fictions -- List of Works Cited -- Index |
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