Embodied Narration : : Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture / / ed. by Heike Hartung.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2018 Part 2 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Aging Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Concept of Embodiment in Modern Culture -- Embodied Narrations of the End of Life: Toward A Thanatological Biopolitics of Modern Culture -- 'About Suffering They were Never Wrong, The Old Masters': Human Pain and the Crucible of Representation -- How We Imagine Living with Dying -- Disgust in Samuel Beckett's Molloy -- 'Blue with Age': Dis- and Dys-appearance of the Body in Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" -- Growing Bodies: Narrating Death and Sexuality in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction -- When Mother Is Dying: Miljenko Jergović's Kin -- Storytelling in the Age of AIDS: Narrative Possibilities and the Exigencies of Loss in Dale Peck's Martin and John. A Novel -- Realism and the Soul: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf's Illness -- The Illness Is You: Figurative Language in David Foster Wallace's Short Story "The Planet Trillaphon" -- Reading the Assault on the Lived Body in Hilary Mantel's Giving up the Ghost -- Contributors |
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Summary: | 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 as a prediscursive phenomenon to regarding it as an acculturated body. Age studies have extended this view to the embodied experience of ageing, while drawing attention to the ways in which the ageing body, through its materiality and plasticity, restricts the possibilities of (de)constructing subjectivity. These current debates on embodiment find a strong counterpart in literary representation. The contributions to this anthology investigate how and to what extend physical borderline experiences affect literary form. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783839443064 9783110766677 9783110719550 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604016 9783110603231 9783110661545 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783839443064?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Heike Hartung. |