Title Representations of illness in literature and film / Bennett Kravitz.

Publication Info.

Online access
Online eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook

Item Status

Description	1 online resource (130 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-127).
Summary	This book examines the ways that various syndromes, disorders and diseases appear in modern literature and film. What is especially interesting is that rather than be portrayed as an insurmountable handicap, limitation becomes the hero of the novels and films under discussion. What once would have been rejected as flawed, ill, diseased or unworthy has now earned the opportunity to be included into mainstream society. By accepting the other, these works of art allow previous outcasts of soc ...
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Diseases in motion pictures.
	Diseases in motion pictures.
	Diseases in literature.
	Diseases in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Kravitz, Bennett. Representations of illness in literature and film. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010 9781443820837 (DLC) 2010533327 (OCoLC)620330786
ISBN	9781443820905 (electronic book)
	1443820903 (electronic book)
	9781443820837
	1443820830
Standard No.	9786612588501