Embodied Narration: Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture

Heike Hartung

doi:10.14361/9783839443064

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Edition: 1/2018
Copyright Year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-4306-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-4306-4
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: Aging Studies
Volume: 15
Language: English
Pages: 260
Product Type: Edited Book

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Acknowledgements No access Pages 7 - 8
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Introduction: The Concept of Embodiment in Modern Culture No access Pages 9 - 20
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Embodied Narrations of the End of Life: Toward A Thanatological Biopolitics of Modern Culture No access Pages 21 - 50
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''About Suffering They were Never Wrong, The Old Masters'': Human Pain and the Crucible of Representation No access Pages 51 - 66
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How We Imagine Living with Dying No access Pages 67 - 84
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Disgust in Samuel Beckett''s Molloy No access Pages 85 - 102
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''Blue with Age'': Dis- and Dys-appearance of the Body in Eudora Welty''s "A Worn Path" No access Pages 103 - 118
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Growing Bodies: Narrating Death and Sexuality in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction No access Pages 119 - 140
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When Mother Is Dying: Miljenko Jergović''s Kin No access Pages 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 No access Pages 157 - 176
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Realism and the Soul: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf''s Illness No access Pages 177 - 202
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The Illness Is You: Figurative Language in David Foster Wallace''s Short Story "The Planet Trillaphon" No access Pages 203 - 226
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Reading the Assault on the Lived Body in Hilary Mantel''s Giving up the Ghost No access Pages 227 - 254
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Contributors No access Pages 255 - 260
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