Abstract

GELMAN CONSTANTIN, Francisco. Uses of the Literary in the Medical Humanities: Reading William Carlos Williams and A Fortunate Man by John Berger and Jean Mohr. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.1, pp.361-388.  Epub Apr 06, 2021. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v23n1.87529.

The paper addresses the uses of literary materials performed by the Medical Humanities, through an analysis of their readings of William Carlos Williams and John Berger and Jean Mohr's book A Fortunate Man. Through scrutiny into articles within the Medical Humanities that are devoted to them, I seek to render the ways of engaging the literary -and therefore of understanding it- they propose as they relate to those instituted by literary scholarship. I underscore as their general conditions a certain imaginary slippage between the author, the narrator or poetic subject, characters and readers, and the unmaking of disciplinary borders. There are three specific suggestions for ways to put the text to work: the education of the senses, narrative as a space for ethical speculation, and the rewriting of discourses such as the medical.

Keywords : literary studies; medical humanities; interdiscipHnarity; John Berger and Jean Mohr; rewriting; William Carlos Williams.

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