Title Embodied Narration : Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture.

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Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, 2018.

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Description	1 online resource (261 pages).
	text file
Series	Aging Studies ; v. 15
	Aging studies.
Contents	Cover; Content; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- The Concept of Embodiment in Modern Culture; Embodied Narrations of the End of Life -- Toward A Thanatological Biopolitics of Modern Culture; 'About Suffering They Were Never Wrong, The Old Masters' -- Human Pain and the Crucible of Representation; How We Imagine Living with Dying; Disgust in Samuel Beckett's Molloy; 'Blue with Age' -- Dis- and Dys-appearance of the Body in Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"; Growing Bodies -- Narrating Death and Sexuality in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction; When Mother Is Dying -- Miljenko Jergović's Kin.
	Storytelling in the Age of AIDS -- Narrative Possibilities and the Exigencies of Loss in Dale Peck's Martin and John. A NovelRealism and the Soul -- The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf's Illness; The Illness Is You -- Figurative Language in David Foster Wallace's Short Story "The Planet Trillaphon"; Reading the Assault on the Lived Body in Hilary Mantel's Giving up the Ghost; Contributors.
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Subject	Gender Studies.
	Culture.
	Culture.
	Health.
	Health.
	cultural studies.
	Human body.
	Human body.
	Literature.
	Literary Studies.
	Literature.
	General Literature Studies.
	Aging studies.
	Narrative Theory.
	Ageism.
	Ageism.
	Decay.
	Body and Embodiment.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Hartung, Heike. Embodied Narration : Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture. Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, ©2018 9783837643060
ISBN	3839443067
	9783839443064 (electronic book)
	9783837643060

Title Embodied Narration : Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture.

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