ISBN:
9783839443064
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Aging Studies 15
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Kultur
;
Literatur
;
Erzähltheorie
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Embodiment
;
Körper
;
Altern
;
Krankheit
;
Tod
;
Krankheit
;
Tod
;
Sterben
;
Ageism
;
Aging Studies
;
Body and Embodiment
;
Body
;
Cultural Studies
;
Culture
;
Decay
;
Gender Studies
;
General Literature Studies
;
Health
;
Literary Studies
;
Literature
;
Narrative Theory
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
DOI:
10.1515/9783839443064
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839443064?locatt=mode:legacy
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