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  1. Joy
    Author: Lee, Jonathan
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Windmill Books, London

    On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Joy Stephens plummets 40 feet onto a marble floor while addressing her colleagues. In the shadow of this baffling event, the lives of those closest to her begin to collide and... more

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    On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Joy Stephens plummets 40 feet onto a marble floor while addressing her colleagues. In the shadow of this baffling event, the lives of those closest to her begin to collide and change in unexpected ways

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780099537694; 0099537699
    Subjects: Woman lawyers; Coma
    Scope: 308 pages
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    Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 2012
  2. Marabou stork nightmares
    a novel
    Author: Welsh, Irvine
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Norton, New York [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0393315630; 0393038459
    RVK Categories: HN 9060
    Edition: 1. publ. as a Norton paperback
    Subjects: Coma
    Scope: 264 S.
  3. Marabou Stork nightmares
    Author: Welsh, Irvine
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Vintage, London [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 009943511X
    RVK Categories: HN 9060
    Edition: [Nachdr.]
    Subjects: English fiction; Coma
    Scope: 264 S.
  4. The language and imagery of coma and brain injury
    representations in literature, film and media
    Author: Colbeck, Matthew
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    Introduction -- 1. Contextualising coma: a medical and cultural history -- 2. Coma, memory and the exilic self -- 3. Coma and the Katabatic archetype -- 4. Selfhood and the post-coma condition -- 5. Coma, brain injury and lived experience -- 6. Coma... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Introduction -- 1. Contextualising coma: a medical and cultural history -- 2. Coma, memory and the exilic self -- 3. Coma and the Katabatic archetype -- 4. Selfhood and the post-coma condition -- 5. Coma, brain injury and lived experience -- 6. Coma as metaphor. "What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the sheer volume of literary and media texts would have us believe that we do. This book examines representations of coma and brain injury across a range of texts, exploring common tropes and linguistic devices used to portray this medical condition and which help shape universal mythologies of coma. It looks at how these texts represent, or fail to represent, long-term brain injury, drawing on narratives of coma survivors that have been produced and curated through writing groups that the author has run over the last 7 years. Discussing a diverse range of cultural works, including novels by Irvine Welsh, Stephen King, Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland, as well as film and media texts such as The Sopranos, Kill Bill, Coma and The Walking Dead, this study provides an explanation for our fascination with coma. With a proliferation of overly positive stories of survival in the media and in literature, this book explores the potential impact these have upon our own understanding of coma and its victims."--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350077829; 9781350077812; 9781350238152; 9781350077799
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    RVK Categories: EC 5197 ; AP 50300
    Subjects: Magic realism (Literature); Coma; Brain; Literature; Motion pictures; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (216 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Includes index
  5. Hurricane lady
    Author: Charyn, Jerome
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Mysterious Press, New York

    TV producer Joko Robinson becomes obsessed with saving a former model who calls herself Inertia and now serves a German crime lord. more

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    TV producer Joko Robinson becomes obsessed with saving a former model who calls herself Inertia and now serves a German crime lord.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0446677337
    Edition: 1. print.
    Subjects: Coma; Models (Persons); Rich people; Television producers and directors
    Scope: 199 S.
  6. Girlfriend in a coma
    Author: Coupland, Douglas
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Regan Books, New York, NY

    A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God. more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0060391782
    RVK Categories: HQ 4470
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Coma; Millennium (Eschatology); Television programs
    Scope: 284 S.
  7. The arrival
    Author: Stewart, Josephine
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Pentland Press, Edinburgh [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 1858217660
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Birthdays; Coma; English
    Scope: 21 S., Ill.
  8. Girlfriend in a coma
    Author: Coupland, Douglas
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Flamingo, London

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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0006551270
    RVK Categories: HQ 4470
    Subjects: Coma; Millennium (Eschatology); Television programs
    Scope: 280 S.
  9. The language and imagery of coma and brain injury
    representations in literature, film and media
    Author: Colbeck, Matthew
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London [England] ; Bloomsbury Publishing

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    Katholische Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen (katho), Hochschulbibliothek
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    Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, Hauptabteilung
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Brain / Wounds and injuries; Coma; Literature / History and criticism; Magic realism (Literature); Motion pictures / History and criticism; Discourse analysis
    Scope: 1 online resource (256 pages)
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    Includes index
  10. The rowing lesson
    a novel
    Author: Landsman, Anne
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Granta, London

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781862079892
    Subjects: Coma; Physicians
    Scope: 279 S.
  11. Girlfriend in a coma
    Author: Coupland, Douglas
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Regan Books, New York, NY

    A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God. more

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    A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0060391782
    RVK Categories: HQ 4470
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Coma; Millennium (Eschatology); Television programs
    Scope: 284 S.
  12. The miracle girl
    a novel
    Author: Roe, Andrew
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    “To believe or not to believe--that is the question facing all who are touched by the comatose ‘miracle girl’ at the swirling center of Andrew Roe’s dazzling debut. But more than an exploration of the mysteries of faith,... more

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    “To believe or not to believe--that is the question facing all who are touched by the comatose ‘miracle girl’ at the swirling center of Andrew Roe’s dazzling debut. But more than an exploration of the mysteries of faith, it’s also the unforgettable story of one family’s struggle against tragedy. The result is an uplifting miracle of a book.” —Will Allison, author of Long Drive Home The crowds keep coming. More and more every day it seems . . . drawn by rumor and whisper and desperate wish. Somehow they heard about the little girl on Shaker Street.” They come to see eight-year-old Anabelle Vincent, who lies in a comalike state--unable to move or speak. They come because a visitor experienced what seemed like a miracle and believed it was because of Anabelle. Word spread. There were more visitors. More miracles. But is there a connection? And does it matter? Set against the backdrop of the approaching millennium--with all its buzz about reckoning and doom--this impressive debut novel is narrated by Anabelle herself; by her devoted mother, who cares for her child while struggling to make sense of the media frenzy surrounding her; by Anabelle’s estranged father, who is dealing with the guilt of his actions; and by the people who come seeking the child’s help, her guidance, and her healing. Yet it tells a larger cultural story about the human yearning for the miraculous to be true, about how becoming a believer--in something, anything, even if you don’t understand it--can sustain you. “In The Miracle Girl, we’re reminded that the desire for miracles always connotes dissatisfaction, even as it articulates a hope. Roe deftly explores this paradox . . . [and] examines the strange responsibility of being believed in. A stunning, confident debut.” —Peter Rock, author of The Shelter Cycle “An incisive and insightful critique of America, investigating where we put our faith and why . . . It’s a novel about what it means to be human, to be lost or broken, a little or a lot, and to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us.” —Doug Dorst, author of S. and Alive in Necropolis

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781616204945
    Edition: First Edition
    Subjects: Medical fiction; Miracles; Daughters; Coma; Coma ; Patients ; Family relationships ; Fiction..; Daughters ; Fiction..; Miracles ; Fiction..; Medical fiction..; Psychological fiction; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""Visitors""; ""Part One""; ""1""; ""2""; ""3""; ""4""; ""5""; ""6""; ""7""; ""8""; ""9""; ""Believers""; ""Part Two""; ""10""; ""11""; ""12""; ""13""; ""14""; ""15""; ""16""; ""17""; ""18""; ""19""; ""The Room""; ""Part Three""; ""20""; ""Press Release""; ""The Miracle Girl""; ""Acknowledgments""
  13. Still life
    a novel
    Author: Fielding, Joy
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Simon & Schuster, London [u.a.]

    Casey Marshall liegt nach einem Unfall im Koma - aber sie kann hören, was um sie geschieht. So erfährt sie, dass der "Unfall" gar keiner war ... Thriller more

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    Casey Marshall liegt nach einem Unfall im Koma - aber sie kann hören, was um sie geschieht. So erfährt sie, dass der "Unfall" gar keiner war ... Thriller

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781847373403
    Subjects: Women interior decorators; Traffic accident victims; Coma
    Other subjects: Suspense fiction
    Scope: 369 S
  14. The rowing lesson
    a novel
    Author: Landsman, Anne
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Granta, London

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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    TM 2014/831
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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9781847080707; 1847080707
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    9781847080707
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Subjects: Coma; Fathers and daughters; Physicians
    Scope: 279 S., 20 cm
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    Originally published: New York: Soho, 2007
  15. Birds of a Kind
    Author: Mouawad, Wajdi
    Published: 2019; ©2019
    Publisher:  Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto

    In this sweeping new drama from the prolific Wajdi Mouawad, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hits close to home as a family is forced to confront everything they know about their identities. Intro -- I. BIRD OF BEAUTY -- 1. The impeccable harmony of... more

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    In this sweeping new drama from the prolific Wajdi Mouawad, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hits close to home as a family is forced to confront everything they know about their identities. Intro -- I. BIRD OF BEAUTY -- 1. The impeccable harmony of chance -- 2. The first night after the massacre -- 3. 46 chromosomes -- 4. Perfect skin -- 5. A phone call -- 6. A door -- 7. Seder -- 8. The unreal bougainvillea -- II. BIRD OF CHANCE -- 9. The anonymity of joy and sorrow -- 10. Introduction and reunion -- 11. Diagnosis -- 12. The first day -- 13. Dirty work -- 14. A way of being seen -- 15. Hell -- 16. The abyss of time -- III. BIRD OF MISFORTUNE -- 17. Promise -- 18. The speed of truth -- 19. Arab -- 20. Punishment -- 21. Afikomen -- IV. AMPHIBIAN BIRD -- 22. The spirit -- 23. The suitcase that never arrives -- 24. Miscarriage -- 25. Amphibian bird -- 26. A stone -- Acknowledgements.

     
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    Contributor: Gaboriau, Linda (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780369100665
    Subjects: Electronic books; Coma
    Scope: 1 online resource (89 pages)
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  16. The ninth life of Louis Drax
    Author: Jensen, Liz
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Tin House/Bloomsbury Book, New York

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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1582345171
    Edition: 1st U.S. ed
    Subjects: Coma; Accident victims; Hospital patients; Physicians; Boys; Psychological fiction; Domestic fiction
    Scope: 227 S
  17. The land of lost things
    Author: Connolly, John
    Published: 2023; ©2023
    Publisher:  Emily Bestler Books, Atria, New York

    ""Twice upon a time -- for that is how some stories should continue..." Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident, a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories... more

     

    ""Twice upon a time -- for that is how some stories should continue..." Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident, a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, to journey to a land colored by the memories of childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father--a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; a land where old enemies are watching and waiting... the Land of Lost Things"--Dust jacket flap

     
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  18. Coma
    a novel
    Author: Cook, Robin
    Published: c1977
    Publisher:  Little, Brown, Boston

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    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
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    Kg 3295
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0316155101
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Hospital patients; Coma; Suspense fiction; Medical novels
    Scope: 306 p, 22 cm
  19. Beijing coma
    Author: Ma, Jian
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Vintage, New York

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    Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), Abteilung Ostasien
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    PL2948.3.J53 B4513 2009
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    Asien-Orient-Institut, Abteilung für Koreanistik und Abteilung für Sinologie, Bibliothek
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    Contributor: Drew, Flora (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780099481348; 0099481340
    Subjects: Medical students; Coma; Social change; Coma; Medical students; Social change; Social conditions
    Scope: 666 Seiten
  20. An angry-ass black woman
    Author: Miller, Karen E. Quinones
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Gallery Books, New York ; Karen Hunter Publishing, South Orange, N.J.

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781451607826
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Edition: 1. Karen Hunter Publishing/Gallery Books trade paperback ed.
    Subjects: African American authors; African American families; Coma
    Other subjects: Miller, Karen E. Quinones
    Scope: 272 p.
  21. Notes from a coma
    Author: McCormack, Mike
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Soho Press, New York

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781616952327
    Subjects: Coma; Prison hulks; Identity (Psychology); FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical; FICTION / Family Life
    Other subjects: Psychologicla fiction; Psychological fiction; Science fiction
    Scope: 199 Seiten, 1 Portrait [des Verfassers auf dem Cover]
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    "Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, J. J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about. After a sudden tragedy, J. J. suffers a catastrophic mental breakdown. Unable to live with himself, he volunteers for an improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep coma as a future option within the EU penal system. When his coma goes online the nation turns to watch, and J. J. is quickly elevated to the status of cultural icon. Sex symbol, existential hero, T-shirt philosopher--his public profile now threatens to obscure the man himself behind a swirl of media profiles, online polls, and EEG tracings. Five narrators; his father, neighbour, teacher, public representative, and sweetheart; tell us the true story of his life and try to give some clue as to why he is the way he is now: floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed; merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland; Notes from a Coma is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a compassionate examination of how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us"-- Provided by publisher.
  22. <<The>> rowing lesson
    a novel
    Author: Landsman, Anne
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Granta, London

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781862079892
    Subjects: Coma; Physicians
    Scope: 279 S.
  23. The ninth life of Louis Drax
    Author: Jensen, Liz
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, London

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    Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart
    Signature:
    5L 3771
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0747571066
    Subjects: Coma
    Scope: 227 S.
  24. Notes from a coma
    Author: McCormack, Mike
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Vintage, London

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    Anglistisches Seminar der Universität, Bibliothek
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    O MCC V 101
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0099472279; 9780099472278
    Subjects: Coma; Prison hulks; Identity (Psychology)
    Scope: 200 S., 20cm
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    Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2005
  25. <<The>> language and imagery of coma and brain injury
    representations in literature, film and media
    Author: Colbeck, Matthew
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London [England] ; Bloomsbury Publishing

    "What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the sheer volume of literary and media texts would... more

     

    "What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the sheer volume of literary and media texts would have us believe that we do. This book examines representations of coma and brain injury across a range of texts, exploring common tropes and linguistic devices used to portray this medical condition and which help shape universal mythologies of coma. It looks at how these texts represent, or fail to represent, long-term brain injury, drawing on narratives of coma survivors that have been produced and curated through writing groups that the author has run over the last 7 years. Discussing a diverse range of cultural works, including novels by Irvine Welsh, Stephen King, Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland, as well as film and media texts such as The Sopranos, Kill Bill, Coma and The Walking Dead, this study provides an explanation for our fascination with coma. With a proliferation of overly positive stories of survival in the media and in literature, this book explores the potential impact these have upon our own understanding of coma and its victims."--

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350077829; 9781350077812
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    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Magic realism (Literature); Coma; Brain; Literature; Motion pictures
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
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    Includes index

    Introduction -- 1. Contextualising coma: a medical and cultural history -- 2. Coma, memory and the exilic self -- 3. Coma and the Katabatic archetype -- 4. Selfhood and the post-coma condition -- 5. Coma, brain injury and lived experience -- 6. Coma as metaphor