Diseases of modernity
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What are the images, conceptions, and metaphors of health and illness that appear in Chilean literature between 1860 and 1920? How are literary discourses linked to other social discourses regarding the constitution of images of health and illness? How are certain aspects of the modernizing process problematized in literary symbolizations of health and illness?
Health and illness are as present as the oppositional pairings of good and evil, culture and nature, body and mind, masculine and feminine, etc., pervading a range of practices, including the literary sphere. The issues surrounding illness and its literary representations, as well as the aesthetic mobilizations of the healthy and the morbid, have multiple facets.
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Diseases of modernity
| Autor | Andrea Kottow |
|---|---|
| Portada | Ver portada |
| Year | 2022 |
| Nº de páginas | 142 |
| ISBN | 978-956-357-391-6 |
| ISBN digital | 978-956-357-392-3 |
Andrea Kottow
Chile. Holds a degree in Hispanic Language and Literature and a Master's in General and Comparative Literature from the University of Chile, and a PhD in History of Medicine from Freie Universität Berlin. She is currently a professor in the Department of Literature at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Adolfo Ibáñez University. She has published a series of articles in specialized journals and collective books. She is the author of *Der kranke Mann. Medizin und Geschlecht um 1900* (The Sick Man. Medicine and Gender around 1900) (Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, 2006), co-authored with Ana Traverso, *Escribir & tachar* (To Write & Cross Out) (Santiago, Chile: Overol, 2020); and *Fronteras de lo real* (Borders of the Real) (Santiago, Chile: Hueders, 2022). Her research focuses on the links between literature and medicine, literature and psychoanalysis, as well as the relationships between literature and biopolitics.
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