Literature and Medicine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009300063)

The experiences of health and illness, death and dying, the normal and the pathological have always been an integral part of literary texts. This volume considers how the two dynamic fields of medicine and literature have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It asks how medicine, as both science and practice, shapes the representation of illness and transforms literary form. It considers how literary texts across genres and languages of disease have put forward specific conceptions of medicine and impacted its practice. Taking into account the global, multilingual and multicultural contexts, this volume systematically outlines and addresses this double-sidedness of the literature-medicine connection. Literature and Medicine covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field.

Author: Anna M. Elsner
ISBN-10: 1009300067
ISBN-13: 9781009300063
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2024
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d