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Illness as narrative /

0822961903

0822977869

1306553598

9780822961901

9780822977865

9781306553599

9780822961901

Illness as narrative /

[Book]

Ann Jurecic.

Pittsburgh :

University of Pittsburgh Press,

©2012.

©2012

1 online resource (224 pages)

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illness narratives and the challenge to criticism -- Life narratives in the risk society -- Responding to the pain of others -- Sontag, suffering, and the work of writing -- Theory's aging body -- Reparative reading.

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"While the illness narrative is now a staple of the publishing industry, the genre itself has posed a problem for literary studies. What is the role of criticism in relation to personal accounts of suffering? Can these narratives be judged on aesthetic grounds? Are they a collective expression of the lost intimacy of the patient-doctor relationship? Is their function thus instrumental - to elicit the reader's empathy? To answer these questions, Ann Jurecic turns to major works on pain and suffering by Susan Sontag, Elaine Scarry, and Eve Sedgwick and reads these alongside illness narratives by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Reynolds Price, and Anne Fadiman, among others. In the process, she defines the subgenres of risk and pain narratives and explores a range of critical responses guided, alternately, by narrative empathy, the hermeneutics of suspicion, and the practice of reparative reading."--Project Muse.

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JSTOR

0648F21D-E0E8-4309-9458-1C92E87EE872

22573/ctt5g6gw8

0822961903

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Autobiography-- Authorship.

Diseases in literature.

American literature.

Autobiography-- Authorship.

Diseases in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

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LIT004020

Jurecic, Ann,1962-

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