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. 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 extend physical borderline experiences affect literary form.
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Heike Hartung (Dr. phil.), Anglistin, hat am Fachbereich für Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin promoviert und an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam habilitiert. Sie ist Privatdozentin am Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Potsdam und assoziierte Forscherin am Zentrum für Inter-Amerikanische Studien der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Sie erhielt Forschungsstipendien der DFG, der Universität Potsdam und der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Kulturwissenschaftliche Alternsforschung, Disability Studies und Gender Studies, Narratologie und Geschichte des Romans.
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