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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 aim to investigate how and to what extend physical borderline experiences affect literary form.

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• Full title: Embodied Narration - Illness, Death, and Dying in Modern Culture
• Author: Heike Hartung
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9783837643060
• ISBN: 3837643069
• ID: 19013236
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Weight: 666 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 147 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. September 2018

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