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