Ann Jurecic is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.
"lllness as Narrative is an innovative work that provides an
exemplary model of productive ways to read, interpret, and (by
extension) teach literature (autobiography, essays, cultural
analyses, fiction, poetry, and blogs) by and about real people with
real diseases and disabilities."-- "Lynn Z. Bloom, University of
Connecticut"
Ann Jurecic's readings of Sontag, Fadiman, Sedgwick, and Latour
carve new pathways between literary theory and illness narratives.
Illness as Narrative will refresh your vision, draw you to new
texts, and help you teach.-- "Maura Spiegel, coauthor of The Grim
Reader"
Offers substantive confirmation of the continuing scholarly trends
in support of the genre of narrative medicine and for the primary
value of the patient's voice in the practice of medicine. . . .
Jurecic is a mindful reader and she successfully provides a
succinctly written arc of the emergence of illness narratives in
the twentieth century. . . . A must read for all Literature and
Medicine courses and certainly will be added to Medical Humanities
programs around the country.-- "All Heart Matters"
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