Illness as Narrative Contributor(s): Jurečič, Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822961903 ISBN-13: 9780822961901 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 810.935 |
LCCN: 2011048866 |
Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic disease, the transformation of medicine into big business, the women's health movement, the AIDS/HIV pandemic, the advent of inexpensive paperbacks, and the rise of self-publishing all contributed to the proliferation of narratives about encounters with medicine and mortality. |