Embodied Narration
Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture
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Beschreibung
From the perspectives of age and gender studies, the volume aims to investigate how embodied experience such as illness, death and dying affect literary form.
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.
Autor*in
Heike Hartung
Heike Hartung (Dr. habil.) forscht und lehrt als Privatdozentin an der Universität Potsdam.
Themen in »Embodied Narration«
Age Studies Age Studies Aging Studies Aging Studies Gender Studies Gender Studies Literary Studies Literary Studies Cultural Studies Cultural Studies Narrative Theory Narrative Theory Body and Embodiment Body and Embodiment Ageism
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»Each of the articles that compose the collection invites the readers into a nuanced analysis of protagonists who live through intense pain and illness, highlighting the potentialities of language as well as the contradictions that arise inside the same protagonists between their failing bodies, their selves and societys expectations.«
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»Each of the articles that compose the collection invites the readers into a nuanced analysis of protagonists who live through intense pain and illness, highlighting the potentialities of language as well as the contradictions that arise inside the same protagonists between their failing bodies, their selves and societys expectations.«
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