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Jeffrey Berman - Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Film, and Memoir, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Film, and Memoir

Av Jeffrey Berman

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Beskrivning
Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines an analysis of care narratives to inform and inspire ideas about this major role in life. Alongside analysis of narratives drawn from literature and film, the author sensitively interweaves the story of his wife's illness and care to illuminate perspectives on dealing with human decline. Examining texts from a diverse range of authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton and Alice Munro, and filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Michael Haneke, it addresses questions such as why caregiving is a dangerous activity, the ethical problems of writing about caregiving, the challenges of reading about caregiving, and why caregiving is so important. It serves as a fire starter on the subject of how we can gain insight into the challenges and opportunities of caregiving through the creative arts.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-10-29
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 594 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 296
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350166578
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Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany, USA. He has written on a wide range of subjects, including literature and psychoanalysis, the pedagogy of self-disclosure, love and loss, and death education.

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The reassuring, vaguely psychedelic, pastel-blue clouds on the cover of this book little prepared me for the emotional shock and awe I experienced reading much of the text ... Berman has produced an honest and richly nuanced text. He convincingly describes how literature acts as a form of simulation, through which our receptivity to emotion is heightened by placing ourselves in the situations of characters. As a result, we become susceptible to ‘being infected’ by emotions such as grief, shame, disgust and guilt ... This is an important text that deserves a strong and engaged readership.

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