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Literary Configurations of Illness and the Refiguration of Health and Well-being

Class, Monika LU orcid (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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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
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no
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2022-09-10 14:48:02
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