{"title":"A Practice of Literary Palliation: Philippe Forest's <i>L'Enfant éternel</i>.","authors":"Jordan Owen McCullough","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935839","DOIUrl":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935839","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Philippe Forest's first autofictional novel, L'Enfant éternel (The eternal child), centers on the terminal illness and eventual death of the author's daughter, Pauline. While scholarly attention has been directed toward the role of the text in caring for the child, this essay addresses the absence of care for Pauline's parents and their marginalization throughout her end-of-life hospitalization. Focusing on questions of genre, agency, and legacy, I argue that the text allows for a rewriting of the previous, negative experience of care in a way that incorporates the father into care provision. This corrective rewriting understands literature as palliative in its own right, capable of retaining identity, restoring relationships, and facilitating holistic care that \"adds life\" to all concerned.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"42 1","pages":"174-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eco-Anxiety and the Intractable Afterlives of Plastic.","authors":"Geovani Ramírez","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935831","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"42 1","pages":"28-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sitting with Death.","authors":"Nathan Gray","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935832","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"42 1","pages":"39-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Intimate Palliative Sphere: Affect, Gender, and the Good Death in Relational End-of-Life Narratives.","authors":"Katja Herges","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935835","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An increasing number of collaborative end-of-life narratives have been published after the death of the protagonist. Focusing on two examples of women's end-of-life memoirs in contemporary German popular culture, this essay examines how relationality, gender, and affectivity shape the philosophies, practices, and politics of palliative care and the associated concepts of the \"good death.\" Ultimately, I argue that the memoirs foreground a still-marginal narrative and practice of dying at home within an intimate public sphere of palliation that transgresses traditional approaches to care for the dying in contemporary health care. They also contribute to gendered and sentimental notions of family care and of the self-determined and autonomous body and death.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"42 1","pages":"88-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Restorative Play: Shared Reading and the Recovery from the Pandemic.","authors":"Juliane Römhild, Sara James","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article outlines the findings from research project into community reading groups (Shared Reading) at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Evaluating the potential of Shared Reading to aid in the societal recovery from extensive lockdowns during the pandemic, three themes have emerged: participants found the groups broadened their minds after the diminished intellectual stimulation during social isolation; brought them a sense of calm and focus; and helped them form new social connections. We contextualize these findings using a range of approaches, from reception studies and psychoanalysis to creative/social bibliotherapy and close reading. In particular, we draw on D. W. Winnicott's notion of the transitional space of play and research into the mental health benefits of Shared Reading.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"42 2","pages":"346-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Hydropathy in the Age of Exhilaration, 1844-1869.","authors":"Jane Y Zhang","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hydropathy, a popular medical sect in mid-nineteenth-century America, utilized cold water to prevent and treat various ailments. At a time when cold exposure was linked to sickness, how do we account for the widespread appeal of the cold water regimen? By examining the literary production surrounding hydropathy, including medical handbooks, diagnosis records, and patient memoirs, this essay argues that fundamental to the clinical encounter with cold water was the experience of exhilaration-a vital sensation tasked with mediating the tension between the growing enthusiasm for stimulating substances and the mounting anxiety over their depleting effects on the body. Through this lens, the study of hydropathy uncovers the intersecting histories of naturopathic medicine and sensationalist art forms.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"42 2","pages":"391-412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Appetite for Injection: Addiction, Gender, and Race in Arthur Conan Doyle's <i>The Sign of Four</i> (1890).","authors":"Hannah Markley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay explores representations of injection in nineteenth-century medical and literary culture. Through an analysis of medical texts, I show how injection came to be understood through descriptions of racial and gender difference borrowed, in part, from literary culture. By unpacking how moments of injection, perforation, and interpretive crisis in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four rely on tropes of race, gender, and sexuality that nineteenth-century physicians used to understand addiction, this essay underscores the importance of the hypodermic needle for the invention of addiction as a concept ineluctably shaped by the social and political hierarchies of British imperial culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"42 2","pages":"413-437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterlife and Life-After.","authors":"Jaime Konerman-Sease","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"42 1","pages":"21-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Palliative Images in Marion Coutts's <i>The Iceberg</i> and Marco Peano's <i>L'invenzione della madre</i>.","authors":"Maria Vaccarella","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935840","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the representation of terminal brain cancer in Marion Coutts's memoir The Iceberg (2014), on her husband's illness and death, and Marco Peano's autofiction L'invenzione della madre (The invention of the mother; 2015), about a son who cares for his mother during her final days. While addressing the medicalization of dying and the efficacy of palliative care, both texts engage pervasively with visual culture. This emphasis on the visual arts and cinema provides a thought-provoking commentary on the protagonists' experience of witnessing the gradual erosion of verbal expression in their dying loved ones. This essay will thus explore both the use of visual culture as palliative praxis and the authors' implicit considerations on the role of narrativity in dying.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"42 1","pages":"197-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}