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  1. Alzheimer s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
    Memory Lost
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    This book addresses the representation of Alzheimer s disease in U.S contemporary fiction through the lens of memory loss. The study focuses on how the interpretation of the erasure of memories in a person with Alzheimer s affects our idea of... more

     

    This book addresses the representation of Alzheimer s disease in U.S contemporary fiction through the lens of memory loss. The study focuses on how the interpretation of the erasure of memories in a person with Alzheimer s affects our idea of identity in an individual, social and cultural sense

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032040097
    Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    Subjects: HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia; LIT024000; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik; Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000; Psychologie des Alters und Alterns; Psychology of ageing; Psychotherapie; Psychotherapy
    Scope: 164 Seiten
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    Introduction PART I Individual Memory 1 The Three Lessons on Alzheimer s in Lisa Genova s Still Alice 2 Memory Blanks, Conïnement, and Mystery in Alice LaPlante s Turn of Mind. PART II Social Memory 3 Matthew Thomas s We Are Not Ourselves: Alzheimer s and the Failure of the American Dream 4 Interdependence and Memorial Identity in Marita Golden s The Wide Circumference of Love 5 Memory Loss and Infantilization in Rachel Khong s Goodbye, Vitamin PART III Cultural Memory 6 The Amnesiac Rapture of Alzheimer s: Stefan Merrill Block s The Story of Forgetting 7 Satire in Chuck Palahniuk s Representation of Alzheimer s Disease in Choke 8 Ruth Ozeki s Alzheimer s as Cultural Forgetting in All over Creation and A Tale for the Time Being Bibliography Index

  2. Alzheimer's disease in contemporary US fiction
    memory lost
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    Part I. Individual Memory -- The Three Lessons on Alzheimer's in Lisa Genova's Still Alice -- Memory Blanks and Mystery in Alice LaPlante's Turn of Mind -- Part II. Social Memory -- Matthew Thomas's We Are Not Ourselves: Alzheimer's and the failure... more

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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2022 A 11040
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    Part I. Individual Memory -- The Three Lessons on Alzheimer's in Lisa Genova's Still Alice -- Memory Blanks and Mystery in Alice LaPlante's Turn of Mind -- Part II. Social Memory -- Matthew Thomas's We Are Not Ourselves: Alzheimer's and the failure of the American Dream -- Interdependence and Memorial Identity in Marita Golden's The Wide Circumference of Love -- Memory Loss and Infantilization in Rachel Khong's Goodbye, Vitamin -- Part III. Cultural Memory -- The Amnesiac Rapture of Alzheimer's: Stefan Merrill Block's The Story of Forgetting -- Loss and Satire in Chuck Palahniuk's Representation of Alzheimer's Disease in Choke -- Ruth Ozeki's Alzheimer's as Cultural Forgetting in All Over Creation and A Tale for the Time Being. "This book addresses the representation of Alzheimer's disease in U.S contemporary fiction through the lens of memory loss. The study focuses on how the interpretation of the erasure of memories in a person with Alzheimer's affects our idea of identity in an individual, social and cultural sense"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032035581; 9781032040097
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    RVK Categories: HU 1691
    Series: Routledge research in American literature and culture
    Subjects: American fiction; Alzheimer's disease in literature; Memory in literature
    Scope: x, 164 Seiten