16-17 November 2017 School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, People not only think about stories; far more consequentially, people think with stories. Arthur W. Frank, Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology, 2010: 47. The idea of home was something they lived so completely that th...
This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oates’s hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widow’s Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction. It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to hybridism—generic, narrative and typographic in particular—as...
Parution - Literature and Medicine Literature and Medicine, Volume 28, Number 2, Fall 2009 The Discovered Story: The Evolution of Truth in Cancer Narratives Larry D. Cripe Editors' Preface: Cancer Stories Jane E. Schultz, Martha Stoddard Holmes Tricksters and Truth Tellers: Narrating Illness in an A...
The essay engages with the interrelations of illness, style and aesthetics in Hollinghurst’s and James’s novels. The title of Hollinghurst’s novel serves as a guiding image since it refers to William Hogarth’s concept of the line of beauty and also evokes the ogee, a decorative element in architectu...
