Representations of Bodies in Crisis in Contemporary Japanese Literature: Two Cases of Eating Disorders
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7 février 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.cdf.12700
- eisbn: 9782722605817
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Christopher Scholz, « Representations of Bodies in Crisis in Contemporary Japanese Literature: Two Cases of Eating Disorders », Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/books.cdf.12700
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Introduction We are all hungry for stories. We stay up late to devour books and gobble up narratives that sate our yearning to understand the human condition; or simply: who we are. We pride ourselves on having sophisticated taste in literature; we spurn junk novels like junk food even though some highbrow literature might be hard to digest. We are hungry for stories because “literature teaches us to notice”, as Wood puts it, literature “makes us better noticers of life”. Or as Wellberry argu...