Medical Storyworlds : : Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / / Elena Fratto.
Though often seen as scientific or objective, medicine has a fundamentally narrative aspect. Much like how an author constructs meaning around fictional events, a doctor or patient narrates the course of an illness and treatment. In what ways have literary and medical storytelling intersected with a...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter One. THE GRAND FINALE: Death as the Revelatory Ending
- Chapter Two. END OF STORY: Temporality and the Prospect of the Ending in Ivan Ilych, Anna Karenina, and (Potential) Cancer Patients
- Chapter Three. MEDICAL ENLIGHTENMENT IN THE EARLY 1920S: Rhetoric and Diffused Authorship in Jules Romains’s Knock and Soviet Public- Health Campaigns
- Chapter Four. TIME, AGENCY, AND BODILY GLANDS: Metabolic Storytelling in Italo Svevo and Mikhail Bulgakov
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX