Literary Configurations of Illness and the Refiguration of Health and Well-being
(2021) In Narratologia 78. p.75-100- Abstract
- The essay examines three literary memoirs of illness (Giving up the Ghost (2003), Love’s Work (1995) and Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (1998)) and their location in the recent development of illness narratives in anglophone culture. I showcase within a phenomenological framework how the three books defamiliarize the critical moment of diagnosis, reject readers’ sympathy and invite readers to broaden their repertoire of what well-being might feel like (including chronic illness).
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- author
- Class, Monika LU
- publishing date
- 2021-10-11
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Medical humanities, illness narratives, well-being, autopathography, cancer, endometriosis, Alzheimer dementia, literariness, reader reception
- host publication
- Gesundheit erzählen : Ästhetik – Performanz – Ideologie - Ästhetik – Performanz – Ideologie
- series title
- Narratologia
- editor
- Dieckmann, Letizia ; Menninger, Julian and Navratil, Michael
- volume
- 78
- pages
- 25 pages
- publisher
- De Gruyter
- ISSN
- 1612-8427
- ISBN
- 9783110747898
- 9783110748055
- 9783110747898
- DOI
- 10.1515/9783110747928-004
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 6c749afc-2f2e-45ed-8b17-74bb2fd6dbd8
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- 2022-09-10 14:48:02
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