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Beyond the Great Forgetting

Narrative Resistance in American Literature on Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

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  1. Patrick Gruener

    1. Soelden, Austria

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Illness Narratives, Narrative Ethics, and the Story of Alzheimer’s Disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Medicine and Narrative

      • Patrick Gruener
      Pages 3-27

    3. Narrative and Ethics

      • Patrick Gruener
      Pages 29-49

  3. American Narratives on Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Ethical Issues in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Discussion of Four Major Moral Concerns Related to the Dementia Experience

      • Patrick Gruener
      Pages 53-77

    3. Autobiographical Accounts of the Alzheimer Experience

      • Patrick Gruener
      Pages 79-141

    4. Alzheimer’s Disease in American Fiction

      • Patrick Gruener
      Pages 143-297

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 299-316
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About this book

Drawing on a selection of carefully curated autobiographical and fictional portrayals of the dementia experience, this book gives voice to some of the most pressing ethical issues that commonly arise in the context of a dementing disorder, and calls attention to various forms of narrative resistance in contemporary American literature on early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Based on the premise that the current public discourse on AD is largely dominated by an anxiety and fear-promoting conception of the illness, this multilayered inquiry strives to look beyond the widespread horrors of forgetting and loss in AD, and, in doing so, attempts to give a better, more accurate, and more balanced impression of what it means to be living with such a diagnosis.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Soelden, Austria

    Patrick Gruener

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About the author
Patrick Gruener received both his diploma degree in English and American Studies and his doctorate in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Innsbruck. Born and raised in Austria, he currently resides in New York City.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beyond the Great Forgetting

  • Book Subtitle: Narrative Resistance in American Literature on Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Authors: Patrick Gruener

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66029-4

  • Publisher: J.B. Metzler Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-66028-7Published: 30 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-66029-4Published: 29 August 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 316

  • Topics: Contemporary Literature, North American Literature

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