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Literature and Sickness / edited by David Bevan. - 1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations. - Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000 Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 8 . - Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 8. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: David Bevan -- Introduction / Editor: David Bevan -- Acknowledgments / Editor: David Bevan -- 1. From Melancholic to Parabolic Expression: Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka / Lynne S. Vieth -- 2. "The Key to Dedlock's Gait:" Gout as Resistance / Jan B. Gordon -- 3. The Triumph of Sickness in Modern Austrian Literature / Pamela S. Saur -- 4. "L'Invasione Smisurata": The Themes of Neurological Disease and Madness in Elsa Morante's Novels / Elisabetta Nelsen -- 5. Negotiating Elevators and Hay Lofts: Disability and Identity in Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction / Kathleen A. Patterson -- 6. Reading Shilts Reading Camus Reading A Plague / Steven G. Kellman.

Edited by David Bevan Series discontinued.


English

ISBN: 9789004656420

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004656420 DOI

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Diseases in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
Sick in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN3352.S5

Dewey Class. No.: 809.9356