Fictions of Dementia : : Narrative Modes of Presenting Dementia in Anglophone Novels / / Susanne Katharina Christ.

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• VerfasserIn: Christ, Susanne Katharina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory , 82
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 524 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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