Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot

by Jayjit Sarkar

Book Overview

This work questions the problematic connections between illness and modernity: the complicated negotiations involving the body both in its physicality and phenomenology and the poetics and praxiality of illness. The project, which is predominantly conceptual in nature, for it does not see illness solely as a clinical-physical category (leaning heavily on the medical sciences), but rather perspectivizes its phenomenology and pathographical limits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622738055
• ISBN13: 9781622738052
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Vernon Press
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"