Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: The Concept of Embodiment in Modern Culture 9
5. Embodied Narrations of the End of Life: Toward A Thanatological Biopolitics of Modern Culture 21
6. ‘About Suffering They were Never Wrong, The Old Masters’: Human Pain and the Crucible of Representation 51
7. How We Imagine Living with Dying 67
8. Disgust in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy 85
9. ‘Blue with Age’: Dis- and Dys-appearance of the Body in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” 103
10. Growing Bodies: Narrating Death and Sexuality in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 119
11. When Mother Is Dying: Miljenko Jergović’s Kin 141
12. Storytelling in the Age of AIDS: Narrative Possibilities and the Exigencies of Loss in Dale Peck’s Martin and John. A Novel 157
13. Realism and the Soul: The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf’s Illness 177
14. The Illness Is You: Figurative Language in David Foster Wallace’s Short Story “The Planet Trillaphon” 203
15. Reading the Assault on the Lived Body in Hilary Mantel’s Giving up the Ghost 227
16. Contributors 255