Peter Fifield, Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books
Modernism and Physical Illness addresses the experience of physical illness in modernist texts, suggesting there are similarities between sickness and modernism. Not only were modernist texts often considered as diseased texts by those who decried them, but more interestingly, ‘in sickness and mode...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2023
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Crynodeb: | Modernism and Physical Illness addresses the experience of physical illness in modernist texts, suggesting there are similarities between sickness and modernism. Not only were modernist texts often considered as diseased texts by those who decried them, but more interestingly, ‘in sickness and modernism alike, a world that may otherwise appear self-evident is made newly strange by an altered, tickly-textures means of engagement: everything is transformed utterly’ (3). Thus some modernist wri... |
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