Sunday, October 25, 2026

Enfermedad

  

        from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Illness

 

Avrahami, Einat. The Invading Body: Reading Illness Autobiographies.

Bell, S. Narratives of Health and Illness I: DES Daughters Tell Stories. Unpublished manuscript, 1983.

Bury, M. "Illness narratives: Fact or Fiction." Sociology of Health and Illness 23 (2001): 263-85.

Cansinos Asséns, Rafael. "Andrade de Muricy: La novela de la enfermedad." In Cansinos Asséns, Verde y dorado en las letras americanas: Semblanzas e impresiones críticas (1926-1936). Madrid: Aguilar, 1947. 424-38.*

Charon, Rita. Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness.

Clark, Cindy Dell. "Childhood Imagination in the Face of Chronic Illness." In Believed-In Imaginings: The Narrative Construction of Reality. Ed. Joseph de Rivera and Theodore R. Sarbin. Washington (DC): American Psychological Association, 2002. 87-100.*

Class, Monika. "Literary Configurations of Illness and the Refiguration of Health and Well-being." In Gesundheit erzählen. Ed. Letizia Dieckmann et al. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. 75-100.*

Couser, G. Thomas. Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing.

DasGupta, Sayantani, and Marsha Hurst, eds. Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies.  Kent (OH): Kent State UP, 2007.

de Becker, Gavin. Forbidden Facts: Government Deceit & Suppression about Brain Damage from Childhood Vaccines. c. 2025.

Fernandes Ventura, Maria Teresa. Doença crónica: Intervençâo do médico de família para limitar as suas repercussôes na pessoa e na família. Ph.D. diss. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2016. Online at Semantic Scholar.*

         https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Doen%C3%A7a-cr%C3%B3nica%3A-interven%C3%A7%C3%A3o-do-m%C3%A9dico-de-fam%C3%ADlia-as-Ventura/83043a13c1c14e8adcde649ddce4834c8062cfe9

         2020

Frank, Arthur W. "Reclaiming an Orphan Genre: The First-person Narrative of Illness." Literature and Medicine 13.1 (1994): 1-21.

_____. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

Gilbert, Pamela. Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels.

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. 2nd ed. 2001.

_____. "Madwoman in the Attic." In Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

_____. La loca del desván. La escritora y la imaginación literaria del siglo XIX. 1998.

_____. "Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship." 1979. In Feminisms. Ed. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997. 21-32.*

_____. From The Madwoman in the Attic (From Ch. 2, "Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship"). In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*

Gómez del Casal San Martín, N., S. Bozalongo Jalón-Mendiri and R. Aritio Solana. Educando ilusiones, iluminando sonrisas: Guía de intervención psicoeducativa en niños y adolescentes con cáncer. Logroño: Faro, Asociación Riojana de Familiares y Amigos de Niños con Cáncer, 2018.

Gray, Ross. Prostate Tales: Men's Experiences with Prostate Cancer. Medical sociology/fiction. Harriman (TN): Men's Studies Press Paper, 2003.

Gülich, Elisabeth. Mündliches Erzählen: Verfahren narrativer Rekonstruktion im Gespräch. Ed. Stefan Pfänder, Carl E. Scheidt and Elke Schumann. (Narratologia, 71). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.* (I. Grundlagen: Narrative un szenische Rekonstruktion; II. Von Krankheitserfahrungen erzählen; III. Rekonstruktion, Kokonstruktion und Kohärenz am Beispiel von Anfallserzählungen; IV. Verbale und nonverbale Ressourcen bei der narrativen Rekonstruktion von Angsterfahrungen. V. Formulierungsressourcen für 'Unbeschreibbares'; VI. Mehrfaches Erzählen und autobiografische Arbeit; VII. Mündliches Erzählen aus differenzialdiagnostischer Perspektive; VIII. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven). (Seizures, Attacks).

_____. "Krankheitserzählungen." In Gülich, Mündliches Erzählen: Verfahren narrativer Rekonstruktion im Gespräch. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 77-96.*

_____. "Brüche in der Kohärenz bei der narrativen Rekonstrktion von Krankheitserfahrungen: Konversationsanalytische und klinische Aspekte." In Gülich, Mündliches Erzählen: Verfahren narrativer Rekonstruktion im Gespräch. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 213-28.*

Guthrie, James R. [James Robert; Wright State U, Dayton, Ohio] Emily Dickinson's Vision: Illness and Identity in Her Poetry. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.*

Hawkins, Anne. Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography.

Kleinman, Arthur. Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Berkeley: U of California P, 1980.

_____. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

Laín Entralgo, Pedro. Mysterium doloris: Hacia una teología cristiana de la enfermedad. Madrid: UIMP, 1955.

Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien. "IX. Interprétation mystique des accidents et des malheurs." In Lévy-Bruhl, La mentalité primitive. Ed. Fréderic Keck. (Champs Classiques, 964). Paris: Flammarion, 2010. 388-448.* (Taboo, illness, divination).

Lipp, Martin R. The Bitter Pill: Doctors, Patients, and Failed Expectations. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Mattingly, Cheryl, and Linda C. Garro. Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.

McCosker, Anthony. "Blogging Illness: Recovering in Public." M/C Journal 11.6 (2008).*

http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/104/0

2010-08-15

McLellan, Faith. "'A Whole Other Story': The Electronic Narrative of Illness." Literature and Medicine 16.1 (Spring 1997): 88-107.*

Montaigne, Michel de. "De ne contrefaire le malade." In Essais II. (Folio). 452-54.*

_____. "II.xxv. De no fingir enfermedad." In Montaigne, Ensayos completos. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. 2010. 682-83.*

Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Online at Scribd.*

         https://es.scribd.com/book/224369806/The-Emperor-of-All-Maladies-A-Biography-of-Cancer

         2023

Müller, Lisa. "'Wo viel verloren wird, ist manches zu gewinnen': Aushandlungen von Identität, inneren Haltung und Selbstbestimmung in Krankheiserzählungen chronisch erkrankter Menschen." In Gesundheit erzählen. Ed. Letizia Dieckmann et al. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. 145-62.*

Navratil, Michael. "Konzepte der Gesundheit im Werk Thomas Manns: Dekadenter Gesundheitsverdacht, Krankheitswahl und die Autonomie des Körpers." In Gesundheit erzählen. Ed. Letizia Dieckmann et al. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. 33-52.*

Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith. "The Story of ‘I’: Illness and Narrative Identity." Narrative 10.1 (2002): 9-27.

Rosenzvaig, Marcos. El teatro de la enfermedad. Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2009.

Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.

Sontag, Susan. AIDS and Its Metaphors.

_____. "Illness as Metaphor."

_____. "Regarding the Pain of Others."

Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. Special issue on New Illnesses-Old-Problems: Old Illnesses-New Problems. (Winter 1998).

Urresti, Kristina. "¿De qué se mueren los aragoneses?" Heraldo de Aragón (Nov. 2021).*

         https://www.heraldo.es/especiales/de-que-morimos-en-aragon/

         2021

Vogel, Gretchen, and Jennifer Couzin-Frankel. "Rare Link between Coronavirus and Long Covid-like Illness Starts to Gain Acceptance." Science 381.6653 (3 July 2023).*

         https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-link-between-coronavirus-vaccines-and-long-covid-illness-starts-gain-acceptance

         2023

 

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

Rubio, Alicia, et al. "De providas, eutanasia y ginecólogos de mujeres. De niños postcovid y nokids. De enfermedad y vacunas. Con Inma Fdez." Ivoox (Noticias de Mordor) 7 Feb. 2025.* (Inmaculada Fernández; Adverse effects, Illness, Physicians, Immunology, Experts, Corruption, Big Pharma, Rackets).

         https://go.ivoox.com/rf/139472826

         2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

Films

 

 

120 pulsaciones por minuto. Dir. Robin Campillo. Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Adèle Haenel, Yves Heck, Arnaud Valois, Emmanuel Ménard, Antoine Reinartz, François Rabette. France, 2017.* (Anti-AIDS gay activists).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet resources

 

 

 

The Lancet. Covid-19: Pathophysiology of Acute Disease – The Lancet (Respiratory Medicine) 18 May 2021.*

         https://www.thelancet.com/series/COVID-19-pathophysiology

         2022

 

Medline Plus. (A Service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health).

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

 

 

 

 

 

Journals

 

 

Diegesis 7.1 (2018): Krankheit erzählen (II).

         https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis

         2018        

_____. Krankheit erzählen. Special issue of Digesis (2017).*

         https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis

         2017

 

 

 

Literature and Medicine

 

Sociology of Health and Illness 23 (2001).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

B., David. Epileptic.

Bauby, Jean-Dominique and Jeremy Leggatt. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death.

Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home.

Biss, Eula. "The Pain Scale."

Brown, Rebecca. Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary. Memoir in dictionary form.

Chekhov, Anton. (Antón P. Chéjov). "La nueva enfermedad y el viejo medio." 1883. In Chéjov, Cuentos completos (1880-1885). Ed. Paul Viejo. 3rd ed. Madrid: Páginas de Espuma, 2014. 685-86.*

Duras, Marguerite. La Maladie de la mort. Paris: Minuit, 1982.

Hustvedt, Siri. The Shaking Woman. Memoir.

Keller, Nora Okja. Comfort Woman.

LaPlante, Alice. Turn of Mind.

López de Zárate, Francisco. "Después de una grande enfermedad en su mayor edad." In Paraíso cerrado: Poesía en lengua española de los siglos XVI y XVII. Ed. José María Micó and Jaime Siles. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2003. 565.*

Mairs, Nancy.

Molière. Le Malade imaginaire. Comedy. 1673.

_____. The Imaginary Invalid. Trans. of Le Malade imaginaire.

_____. El enfermo  imaginario. Dir. José Carlos Álvarez. Staged at Zaragoza, Cerbuna Teatro, 2019.

Molino, Sergio del. La piel. Autobiographical novel. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2020.

Seagle and Kristiansen. It's a Bird…

Slater, Lauren. Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir. Random House, 2000.

Walser, Martin. La enfermedad de Gallistl. (Palabra Menor). Barcelona: Lumen, 1980.

Woolf, Virginia. "On Being Ill."

Yamashita, Karen Tei. Tropic of Orange.

 

 

 

 

 

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