Being Ill: Idioms, Registers and Styles

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1936-4
Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 021, gebunden

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This volume is a collection of studies on the experience of being ill as represented in a diverse range of literary and film works, offered by Polish scholars with an interest in the combination of medical, cultural and social contexts (disease, illness, sickness). The focus is on narrative strategies that condition the idiomatic styles of writing (about) disease. The analyses also cover extra-individual codes for expressing the experience of illness, arising from cultural orders or literary genres. The contributors examine cultural representations of, i.a., melancholy, depression, Parkinson’s disease and other boundary situations (e.g., mourning or COVID pandemics). With its diversity of study approaches, the book inscribes itself in the widely defined Polish maladic discourse criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

¿Ado¿, Monika

Ladon, Monika

Gielata, Ireneusz

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Über Autor(innen)

Ladon, Monika
Monika Ladon, PhD, is a literary scholar with a focus on representation of boundary situations in literature. She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

¿Ado¿, Monika
Monika Ladon, PhD, is a literary scholar with a focus on representation of boundary situations in literature. She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Gielata, Ireneusz
Ireneusz Gielata, PhD, is a literary historian interested in genealogy of Polish and European modernity as well as connections between literature and medicine. She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.