Being Ill: Idioms, Registers and Styles

196 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 melancholy, depression, Parkinson’s disease and other boundary situations (e.g., mourning or COVID-19 pandemic). With its diversity of study approaches, the book inscribes itself in the widely defined Polish maladic discourse criticism.

• Reihe: TRANSitions / Transdisciplinary, Transmedial and Transnational Cultural Studies / Transdisziplinäre, transmediale und transnationale Studien zur Kultur
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9783847119364
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.01.2026
• Größe: 23.7 x 16 cm
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Herausgegeben von: Monika Ładoń
• Herausgegeben von: Krystyna Koziołek, Hanna Serkowska, Grzegorz Olszański, Agnieszka Gajewska, Jakub Orzeszek, Beata Koper, Maciej Duda, Anna Wojciechowska-Ruppert, Ireneusz Gielata