Overview
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.
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Author: Heike Hartung
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.666kg
ISBN: 9783837643060
ISBN 10: 3837643069
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 08 December 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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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)
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)
Author Information
Heike Hartung (Dr. phil.), Anglistin, hat am Fachbereich für Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin promoviert und an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam habilitiert. Sie ist Privatdozentin am Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Potsdam und assoziierte Forscherin am Zentrum für Inter-Amerikanische Studien der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Sie erhielt Forschungsstipendien der DFG, der Universität Potsdam und der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Kulturwissenschaftliche Alternsforschung, Disability Studies und Gender Studies, Narratologie und Geschichte des Romans.
