Literature and Health: Viable Convergences
Parole chiave:
Medical Humanities, Narrative Medicine (NM), Literary studies, close reading, reflexive/creative writing
Abstract
This paper aims at showing: 1) how the emergent areas of Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine (NM) are related to the convergence movement of the academic fields of knowledge, where the humanities have been called upon to play a relevant role; 2) how the challenge posed by such interfaces in terms of method, has led to the recognition of the role played by close reading as the central method of literary studies and literary criticism, as recently revised and revaluated not only as a creative and dialogical reading practice but also as a creative and dialogical writing practice and adopted by Narrative Medicine as its ‘signature method’; 3) how, in the fields of health care and education, close reading and the attendant reflexive or creative writing contribute to develop attention, representation and affiliation (the tripod of NM) and thus promote and improve therapeutic practices that are ethically aware
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Bakhtin, Mikhail (1929), Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, Eng. trans. by Caryl Emerson, University of Minneapolis Press, Minneapolis 1984.
Barthes, Roland (1966), Critique et Vérité, Seuil, Paris.
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Bissel, Elizabeth (2002), ed., The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary Theory, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York.
Ceserani, Remo (2010), Convergenze. Gli strumenti letterari e le altre discipline, Bruno Mondadori, Milano.
Charon, Rita, Hermann, Nellie, Devlin Michael J. (2016), «Close Reading and Creative Writing in Clinical Education: Teaching Attention, Representation, and Affiliation», in Acad. Med., vol. 91, n. 3, pp. 345-50
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Davis, Lennard J., Morris, David B. (2007), «Biocultures Manifesto», in New Literary History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora, vol. 38, n. 3, pp. 411-418.
Docherty, Thomas (2002), The Question Concerning Literature, in Bissel (2002), pp. 126-41.
Eagleton, Terry (2006), How to Read a Poem, Blackwell Publishing, Hoboken, 2007.
Eco, Umberto (1992), Interpretazione e sovrainterpretazione, Bompiani, Milano (Interpretation and Overinterpretation, ed. by Stefan Collini, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992).
Felski, Rita (2014), Introduction, in Bissel (2002), pp. 45.
Fernandes, Isabel (2011), Literatura: A (in)disciplina na intersecção dos saberes e das artes, Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa.
Fernandes, Isabel (2019), «Back to Basics: from Close Reading to ‘Inclosive’ Reading and the Prospects for Literature», in Op.Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies, 2nd Series, n. 8, pp. 11-29.
Frank, Arthur W. (1995), The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness & Ethics, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2013.
Frow, John (2002), Literature as Regime (Meditations on an Emergence) in Bissel (2002), pp. 142-55.
Greenhalg, Trisha, Hurwitz, Brian (1999), «Narrative based medicine: Why study narrative», in BMJ, 318, pp. 48-50.
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Hurwitz, Brian (2015), «Medical Humanities: Origins, Orientations and Contributions», in Anglo Saxonica, Special Issue on Medical Humanities, ed. by Brian Hurwitz, series III, n. 10, pp. 11-31.
Kant, I (1798), The Conflict of the Faculties, Eng. trans. by M. Gregor, University of Nebraska, 1992.
Knapp, James A., Pence, Jeffrey (2003), eds, «Poetics Today», Special issue: “Between Text and Theory; or the Reflective Turn”, vol. 24, n. 4 (Winter).
Kramnick, Jonathan (2018), Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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Lásló, János (2008), The Science of Stories: An Introduction to Narrative Psychology, Routledge, London.
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Lentricchia, Frank, Dubois, Andrew (2003), eds, Close Reading: The Reader, Duke University Press, Durkham.
Mitchell, William John Thomas (1995), Representation in Lentiricchia, Frank, McLaughlin, Thomas (eds), Critical Terms for Literary Study, The University of Chicago Press Chicago, pp. 11-22.
Nünning, Ansgar (2005), Literary studies and – as – into cultural studies: Gauging a complex relation and suggestions for the future directions of research, in Koen, Hilberdink (ed.), New Prospects in Literary Research, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, pp. 27-54.
Readings, Bill (1996), The University in Ruins, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
Riessman, Catherine Kohler (2008), Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences, Sage Publications, Los Angeles.
Saint-Amour, Paul K. (2018), «The Literary Present», in English Literary History, vol. 85, pp. 367-392.
Snow, Charles Percy (1959), The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. The Rede Lecture 1959, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Starobinski, Jean (2001), Plaidoyer pour des “humanités médicales”, in Danou, Gérard (ed.), Littérature et Médecine, ou les pouvoirs du récit, Bibliothèque Publique d’Information du Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Ziarek, Krzysztof, Deane, Seamus (2000), eds, Future Crossings: Literature between Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Northwestern University Press, Evanston
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2021-07-24
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Fernandes, I. (2021) «Literature and Health: Viable Convergences », Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 15(1). doi: 10.4396/20210604.
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