Illness and Literature in the Low Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illness and Literature in the Low Countries write by Jaap Grave. This book was released on 2015-12-09. Illness and Literature in the Low Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Illness and Literature in the Low Countries
Illness and Literature in the Low Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illness and Literature in the Low Countries write by Jaap Grave. This book was released on 2016. Illness and Literature in the Low Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age write by Helmer J. Helmers. This book was released on 2018-08-23. The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
Re-considering the burden of disease in the Low Countries in past centuries
Re-considering the burden of disease in the Low Countries in past centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-considering the burden of disease in the Low Countries in past centuries write by Isabelle Devos. This book was released on 2017. Re-considering the burden of disease in the Low Countries in past centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Migraine, Words and Fiction
Migraine, Words and Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migraine, Words and Fiction write by Joost Haan. This book was released on 2022-05-11. Migraine, Words and Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are many migraine sufferers worldwide. However, the lack of confirmatory scan or blood test poses a major barrier to their diagnosis, which must be based on their account of the pain. As a consequence, language is of utmost importance in the diagnosis of migraine. This book deals with this relation between words and migraine, and considers how persons with migraine make their pain ‘readable’ and how fictional texts ‘perform’ migraine. Its analysis utilises the theories of Wittgenstein (‘beetle in the box’), Foucault, de Saussure and Scarry, as well as works of fiction including Hustvedt’s The Blindfold, Lasdun’s The Horned Man and Yalom’s When Nietzsche Wept.
