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 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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Content
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Introduction: The Concept of Embodiment in Modern Culture
Seiten 9 - 20 -
Embodied Narrations of the End of Life: Toward A Thanatological Biopolitics of Modern Culture
Seiten 21 - 50 -
'About Suffering They were Never Wrong, The Old Masters': Human Pain and the Crucible of Representation
Seiten 51 - 66 -
How We Imagine Living with Dying
Seiten 67 - 84 -
Disgust in Samuel Beckett's Molloy
Seiten 85 - 102 -
'Blue with Age': Dis- and Dys-appearance of the Body in Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"
Seiten 103 - 118 -
Growing Bodies: Narrating Death and Sexuality in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
Seiten 119 - 140 -
When Mother Is Dying: Miljenko Jergović's Kin
Seiten 141 - 156 -
Storytelling in the Age of AIDS: Narrative Possibilities and the Exigencies of Loss in Dale Peck's Martin and John. A Novel
Seiten 157 - 176 -
Realism and the Soul: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf's Illness
Seiten 177 - 202 -
The Illness Is You: Figurative Language in David Foster Wallace's Short Story "The Planet Trillaphon"
Seiten 203 - 226 -
Reading the Assault on the Lived Body in Hilary Mantel's Giving up the Ghost
Seiten 227 - 254 -
Contributors
Seiten 255 - 260
16. August 2018, 260 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4306-0
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