Journals
Journal:
CUADERNOS DE BIOETICA
ISSN:
1132-1989
Year:
2021
Vol.:
32
N°:
105
pp.
271 - 278
Journal:
PROSE STUDIES
ISSN:
0144-0357
Year:
2021
Vol.:
42
N°:
1
pp.
1 - 15
What does it mean to live with breast cancer, anorexia, chronic pain, dementia, or COVID-19? How does it feel to care for aging parents or to live with people with Alzheimer's? Contemporary illness memoirs foreground these experiences, offering readers insider accounts of lives marked by infirmity. This special issue of Prose Studies presents six critical readings of contemporary experiences of illness, highlighting both the aesthetic and personal experience of reading illness memoirs. These articles address pressing questions regarding how we understand illness and disability today, what popular perspectives get wrong about lived experiences of illness, as well as how reading illness memoirs might help correct widespread or less-thoughtful social and cultural perceptions of the experience of illness.
Journal:
FRONTIERS OF NARRATIVE STUDIES
ISSN:
2509-4882
Year:
2020
Vol.:
6
N°:
2
pp.
231 - 258
In the midst of the age of memoir, where the demarcation between public discourse and private lives has been eroded, a number of life-writing genres figure prominently as identity narratives. Specifically, illness narratives proliferate in both digital and non-digital forms, thus becoming powerful social and cultural forms to understand illness today. This article aims to analyze how online forms are bringing relevant changes both to the genre and to the actual communication of cancer experience. Nancy K. Miller and Susan Gubar choose different forms (visual diary and blog, respectively) to help readers ¿acknowledge the place of cancer in the world¿. Having lived in cancerland for a while, both reject widespread stereotypes about illness, such as being a cancer survivor, the role of the good patient or the need to reject negative emotions such as anger, fear or sadness. Specifically, I will use the concept of automediality in order to explore how subjectivity is constructed in their use of images and new media. This concept may help us further explore the ways in which online forms offer new ways of self-representation and mediation between technology and subjectivities.
Journal:
CUADERNOS DE BIOETICA
ISSN:
1132-1989
Year:
2019
Vol.:
30
N°:
1
pp.
101 - 104
Traducción comentada del inicio de la autobiografía de enfermedad "The Bright Hour" de Nina Riggs (2017)
Journal:
CUADERNOS DE BIOETICA
ISSN:
1132-1989
Year:
2018
Vol.:
29
N°:
1
pp.
83 - 92
Journal:
MEDICAL HUMANITIES
ISSN:
1468-215X
This article analyses the concept of narrative empathy in illness memoirs. These texts negotiate the narrative identity of an autobiographer as he or she recounts the disruptive experience of illness, an experience in which physical and emotional traces dramatically and definitively shape our sense of self. While narrative emotions are certainly deployed in these autobiographies in order to connect with the readers and promote social change, this empathic connection is not so much aimed at arousing compassion but rather more positive emotions on the experience of illness. I will explore the emotional representations of cancer in Arthur Frank's At the Will of the Body (1991) and Kathlyn Conway's Ordinary Life: A Memoir of Illness (1997), focusing on the identity strategies these authors use in order to become affirmative models of disability and illness, showing the damaging effects not of disease or impairment but, rather, of the cultural mythologies that interpret those conditions in reductive or disparaging ways
Journal:
DIEGESIS (WUPPERTAL)
ISSN:
2195-2116
Year:
2017
Vol.:
6
N°:
2
pp.
1 - 13
Focusing on the concepts of narrative empathy and recognition, this article aims to explore ways in which personal narratives may promote a renewed perception of illness and disability. Taking its cue from studies by Rita Felski (2008) and Suzanne Keen (2013), it investigates how empathic experience reflects the force and intensity of aesthetic encounters. Specifically, it addresses two texts that deal with the experience of illness and disability: Christina Middlebrook's Seeing the Crab. A Memoir of Dying Before I Do (1996) and Harriet McBryde Johnson's Too Late to Die Young. Nearly True Tales from a Life (2005). These authors write their lives in order to influence the way we perceive and understand illness and disability.
Their major cultural mediation lies in their willingness to connect with their readers both affectively and cognitively, counter-arguing the culture of denial of death and rejecting pity and compassion in the face of illness and disability
Journal:
CONCENTRIC LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
ISSN:
1729-6897
Year:
2016
Vol.:
42
N°:
2
pp.
65 - 83
Journal:
NATIONAL IDENTITIES
ISSN:
1460-8944
Year:
2015
Vol.:
17
N°:
3
pp.
259 - 269
This article explores both Englishness and nostalgia in the period drama, Downton Abbey (Julian Fellowes, ITV, 2010¿). The story of the Earl of Grantham and his family engage the viewer's emotions by recreating a by-gone era, which could actually stir an acute reflexive nostalgia. Given its popularity, we will explore the ideological use of nostalgia for this contemporary performance of Englishness. Through a close narrative analysis, we will further analyse the meanings of both English estates and social class in the series. Thus, we will see how instances of collective nostalgia may reveal underlying cultural values
Journal:
CUADERNOS DE BIOETICA
ISSN:
1132-1989
Year:
2015
Vol.:
26
N°:
88
pp.
503 - 507
Traducción comentada del primer capítulo de At the Will of the Body de Arthur Frank (1991), titulado "Illness as a dangerous opportunity".
Traducido por Amalia Felllman y Rosalía Baena.
Journal:
CUADERNOS DE BIOETICA
ISSN:
1132-1989
Year:
2014
Vol.:
25
N°:
3
pp.
509 - 521
Journal:
NARRATIVE WORKS
ISSN:
1925-0622
Year:
2014
Vol.:
4
N°:
2
pp.
1 - 7
Journal:
INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERARY STUDIES
ISSN:
1524-8429
Year:
2013
Vol.:
15
N°:
1
pp.
127 - 140
Journal:
CUADERNOS DE BIOETICA
ISSN:
1132-1989
Year:
2013
Vol.:
24
N°:
82
pp.
501 - 504
Journal:
CUADERNOS DE BIOETICA
ISSN:
1132-1989
Year:
2012
Vol.:
23
N°:
79
pp.
775 - 777
Traducción comentada de 'Welcome to Holland' de Emily Perl Kingsley. Traducido por Araceli Arellano y Rosalía Baena.
Journal:
CUADERNOS DE BIOETICA
ISSN:
1132-1989
Year:
2011
Vol.:
22
N°:
76
pp.
567 - 574
Traducción comentada de 'Giving Life a Chance' por Nirmmala Jegathesan. Traducido por Adriana Gordejuela y Rosalía Baena
Journal:
CUADERNOS DE BIOETICA
ISSN:
1132-1989
Year:
2010
Vol.:
21
N°:
73
pp.
405 - 418
Traducción comentada de "Just Crash Through It" por Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds. Traducido por Aina Martí y Rosalía Baena.
Books
Place:
New Brunswick
Publisher:
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative
Year:
2014
Though much has been written about narrative identity, this collection of essays privileges its possibilities from the perspective of theories of emotions. The following articles refer both to the ways in which emotions are represented in narratives, as well as how these representations assume a reader's emotional competence, dwelling on the numerous ways in which narrative empathy is enhanced. Through close readings of different contemporary narratives, this special issue illustrates the advantages of narrative in the portrayal of emotions: "Emotions are, unlike language, non-linear, imprecise, unstructured and diffuse. Therefore language is an inadequate medium to represent emotions, and 'telling,¿ that is, putting a simple label on an emotional state, is less engaging than 'showing' by a wide register of narrative means available to fiction" (Nikolajeva, 2014, p. 95).
In this context, the critical work included in this issue shows how investigating the representation of emotions in literary works requires an engagement with multiple aspects, which include: "the author's intention, the reception by the reader guided by his/her perceptions and assumptions, and the literary work's emotional structure' i.e., signals and markers that refer to emotional conditions and govern the reader's attitude towards the text" (Kümmerling-Meibauer, 2012, p. 131)
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
Rilce
Year:
2012
Book chapters
Book title:
Literature and character education in universities: theory, method, and text analysis
Place:
London
Publisher:
Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
Year:
2021
pp.
17 - 33
The belief that reading stories is a good means to promote empathy and to improve character education has led educators to use literature at different educational levels. However, it is often the case that this potential that literature can offer does not reach actual students, primarily because the two functions of literature, `prodesse et delectare¿¿to teach and to delight¿are not sufficiently acknowledged as inseparable: students are frequently forced to choose between reading for pleasure and reading for moral improvement. Thus, focusing more on the reader, and exploring what reading for pleasure actually entails, we could use literature more effectively to educate our students¿ characters. Specifically, this chapter aims to explore how a more phenomenological and experiential approach to literature would help improve contemporary reading and teaching practices. Generally labeled `post-critics,¿ there are a number of scholars who argue for the need to focus more on readers and who propose alternative readings¿reflective (Rita Felski), creative (Derek Attridge), or rhetorical (James Phelan). This chapter ends with a brief reference to my experience in teaching in a Core Curriculum program within this phenomenological framework that focuses on the actual students¿ experience and responses to literature.
Book title:
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature
Place:
New York
Publisher:
Routledge
Year:
2021
pp.
372 - 382
Death and autobiography have been closely associated since the beginning of life writing studies. From Paul De Man's seminal article "Autobiography as De-facement" (1979), we have been aware of the "restoration of mortality by autobiography" (930). Furthermore, different scholars have dealt with the idea of death as prompting "scriptotherapy", that is to say, the need to write as part of the process of healing or consolation before imminent death. As Susanna Egan explains, the "ultimate, or foundational, relationship of life with death has always been important to autobiography" (Egan 12).
Specifically, much recent autobiography deals with terminal illness, the process of dying and the facts of death. In fact, life-writing genres that specifically deal with the experience of death are proliferating in a variety of forms, visual and verbal, digital and non-digital, etc. In the wake of the memoir boom, we find autothanatographies (also called end-of-life memoirs or death memoirs), narratives of aging, illness memoirs, etc, which often function as counter-narratives in a Western culture of denial.
Book title:
Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives
Place:
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Publisher:
Macmillan Reference USA
Year:
2019
pp.
755 - 758
Book title:
Emotions in Contemporary TV Series
Place:
Houndmills
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
Year:
2016
pp.
118 - 133
Cultural identity in England has been a major concern since the end of the Second World War. As the historian Linda Colley argues, `the identity of Britain only began to be seriously investigated (as distinct from being taken for granted) after the Second World War, a time when peace and imperial retreat fostered a highly introverted view of the British past¿ (311). During the twentieth century, several issues ¿ among them, the last vestiges of the Empire, economic decline, and social change ¿ seriously undermined the classic sense of English identity (Kumar 250¿1). Moreover, Britain appears to be currently immersed in a postnational era marked by the challenges of globalization, Europeanization and internal devolution. In this context, an analysis of the contemporary cultural forms that evoke an acute national sense through a highly idealized English way of life will allow us to understand the reasons why and how nostalgia protagonizes these representations
Book title:
Bioética y cuidados en enfermería
Place:
Valencia
Publisher:
Consejo de Enfermería de la Comunidad Valenciana (CECOVA)
Year:
2014
pp.
211 - 225
Book title:
Emociones y estilos de vida: radiografía de nuestro tiempo
Place:
Madrid
Publisher:
Biblioteca Nueva
Year:
2013
pp.
131 - 154
