商品簡介
Do liminal embodied experiences such as illness, death, and dying affect literary form? In recent years, the concept of embodiment has been theorized from various perspectives. The gender studies have been concerned with the cultural implications of embodiment, arguing to move away from viewing the body as a prediscursive phenomenon to regarding it as an acculturated body. Age studies have extended this view to the embodied experience of ageing, while drawing attention to the ways in which the ageing body, through its materiality and plasticity, restricts the possibilities of (de-)constructing subjectivity. These current debates on embodiment find a strong counterpart in literary representation. The contributions to this anthology investigate how and to what extent physical borderline experiences affect literary form.
作者簡介
Heike Hartung is an independent scholar in English studies, associated with the University of Potsdam, Germany, and the University of Graz, Austria. She earned her PhD in English Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin and her postdoctoral degree in literary and cultural studies at the University of Potsdam. In her publications she applies the methods of literary theory to the interdisciplinary fields of aging, disability, and gender studies.
