Teaching Literature and Medicine

by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Book Overview

Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Kafka's fiction or childbed fever in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to disease in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or in Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska; from the stories of Anton Chekhov and of William Carlos Williams, both doctors, to the poetry of nurses derived from their contrasting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873523571
• ISBN13: 9780873523578
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"