عنوان

Illness as narrative /

(Number (ISBN

0822961903

(Number (ISBN

0822977869

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1306553598

(Number (ISBN

9780822961901

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9780822977865

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9781306553599

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9780822961901

Title Proper

Illness as narrative /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ann Jurecic.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Pittsburgh :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2012.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (224 pages)

Series Title

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

"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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OverDrive, Inc.

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JSTOR

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0648F21D-E0E8-4309-9458-1C92E87EE872

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22573/ctt5g6gw8

International Standard Book Number

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

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Edition

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Book number

Jurecic, Ann,1962-

Date of Transaction

20200822140913.0

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[Book]

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