Embodied Narration: Illness, Death, and Dying in Modern Culture

ISBN-13: 9783837643060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Heike Hartung

Recenzje

»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)

O autorze

Heike Hartung is an independent scholar who has earned her PhD in English studies at Freie Universität Berlin and her PhD habil. at Universität Potsdam, Germany. She is affiliated as senior researcher at the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria. In her publications she applies the methods of literary theory and cultural studies to the interdisciplinary fields of ageing, disability and gender studies. She is a founding member of the European Network in Aging Studies (ENAS).