Embodied Narration: Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture

Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Embodied Narration

Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture

Edited by: Heike Hartung

Volume 15 in the series Aging Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839443064

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Heike Hartung is an independent scholar who has earned her PhD in English studies at Freie Universität Berlin and her PhD habil. at Universität Potsdam, Germany. She is affiliated as senior researcher at the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria. In her publications she applies the methods of literary theory and cultural studies to the interdisciplinary fields of ageing, disability and gender studies. She is a founding member of the European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS).

Reviews

»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.«
Maricel Or-Piqueras, Ageculturehumanities, 5(2020)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction: The Concept of Embodiment in Modern Culture Heike Hartung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Embodied Narrations of the End of Life: Toward A Thanatological Biopolitics of Modern Culture Heike Hartung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
‘About Suffering They were Never Wrong, The Old Masters’: Human Pain and the Crucible of Representation Rüdiger Kunow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
How We Imagine Living with Dying Margaret Morganroth Gullette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Disgust in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy Sarah J. Ablett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
‘Blue with Age’: Dis- and Dys-appearance of the Body in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” Ellen Matlok-Ziemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Growing Bodies: Narrating Death and Sexuality in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
When Mother Is Dying: Miljenko Jergović’s Kin Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Storytelling in the Age of AIDS: Narrative Possibilities and the Exigencies of Loss in Dale Peck’s Martin and John. A Novel Ariane Schröder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Realism and the Soul: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf’s Illness Vira Sachenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
The Illness Is You: Figurative Language in David Foster Wallace’s Short Story “The Planet Trillaphon” Anita Wohlmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Reading the Assault on the Lived Body in Hilary Mantel’s Giving up the Ghost Monika Class Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 260
Keywords: Aging Studies; Gender Studies; Literary Studies; Cultural Studies; Narrative Theory; Body and Embodiment; Ageism; Health; Decay; Culture; Literature; Body; General Literature Studies

eBook

Published: August 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839443064