Embodied Narration Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hartung, Heike (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag 2018.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Aging Studies ; v. 15.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40587678*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; 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 NovelRealism 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.