Illness and Literature in the Low Countries

Grave, Jaap

ISBN 10: 3847105205 / ISBN 13: 9783847105206

Edité par V&R unipress, 2015

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• Titre: Illness and Literature in the Low Countries
• Éditeur: V&R unipress
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3847105205
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783847105206
• Reliure: hardcover
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 19 onces

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Jaap Grave teaches Modern Dutch Literature at Munster University. Dr. Rick Honings is Assistant Professor in Dutch Studies at Leiden University. Dr. Bettina Noak works as research assistant in Dutch Literature at the Institute for German and Dutch Languages and Literature, FU Berlin.