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Illness and Literature in the Low Countries

From the Middle Ages until the 21st Century

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine. The first book of Homer’s Ilias recounts the plague that swept the camp of the Achaeans. While this instance concerns a full-length book, it is the aphorism that is of greater importance as a literary technique for the dissemination of medical knowledge, from the “Corpus Hippocraticum” of antiquity until the “Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis” (1715) by Herman Boerhaave. In addition, the subject of illness and its impact on mankind was explored by great numbers of poetic scholars and scholarly poets. This collection offers fourteen articles which all highlight the relation between disease and literature. It entails a first-ever overview of Dutch-language research in this field, whereby the literary and cultural functions of medical knowledge and the poetics of medical and literary writing are in the focus.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-8471-0520-6 / 978-3847105206 / 9783847105206

Verlag: V&R unipress

Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2015

Seiten: 278

Auflage: 1

Herausgegeben von Bettina Noak, Jaap Grave, Rick Honings
Beiträge von Hans de Waardt, Stephan Besser, Gerard Bouwmeester, Sander Bax, Joost Haan, Helmer Helmers, Steven Honings, Mary Kemperink, Frans-Willem Korsten, Arnold Lubbers, Olga van Marion, Liesbeth Minnaard, Wouter Schrover, Ronny Spaans, Mark G. van Vledder

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