02414nam 2200589 a 450 991078910080332120230725050449.01-282-58850-897866125885011-4438-2090-3(CKB)3390000000009200(EBL)1080936(OCoLC)662405011(SSID)ssj0000441718(PQKBManifestationID)12190670(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000441718(PQKBWorkID)10444635(PQKB)11091170(MiAaPQ)EBC1080936(Au-PeEL)EBL1080936(CaPaEBR)ebr10633149(CaONFJC)MIL258850(OCoLC)620330786(FINmELB)ELB144553(EXLCZ)99339000000000920020100825d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRepresentations of illness in literature and film[electronic resource] /by Bennett KravitzNewcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.20101 online resource (138 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-2083-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-130).TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CONCLUSION; WORKS CITED; NOTESThis book examines the ways that various syndromes, disorders and diseases appear in modern literature and film. What is especially interesting is that rather than be portrayed as an insurmountable handicap, limitation becomes the hero of the novels and films under discussion. What once would have been rejected as flawed, ill, diseased or unworthy has now earned the opportunity to be included into mainstream society. By accepting the other, these works of art allow previous outcasts of soc...Diseases in motion picturesDiseases in literatureDiseases in motion pictures.Diseases in literature.791.436561Kravitz Bennett1550010MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789100803321Representations of illness in literature and film3808468UNINA