In solidarity with the UCU strikes, The Polyphony will not be posting any new material on February 20th and 21st; February 24th to 26th; March 2nd to 5th; and March 9th to 13th 2020. To mark the ongoing industrial action, […]
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Anne Boyer’s “The Undying” (3/3)
The Polyphony invited Agnes Arnold-Forster and Will Viney to review Anne Boyer’s cancer memoir, The Undying (2019), and to respond to each other’s reviews. Their reviews were published earlier this week; their responses to each other are below.
Anne Boyer’s “The Undying” (2/3)
The Polyphony asked two readers, Agnes Arnold-Forster (Research and Engagement Fellow, Surgery and Emotion, University of Roehampton) and Will Viney (Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, UoL), to review Anne Boyer’s highly-publicised 2019 cancer memoir “The Undying”, and to respond to each other’s reviews. In this second of a three-part series, Will Viney considers Boyer’s text in the context of recent developments in ‘personalised’ cancer care.
Anne Boyer’s “The Undying” (1/2)
The Polyphony asked two readers, Agnes Arnold-Forster (Research and Engagement Fellow, Surgery and Emotion, University of Roehampton) and Will Viney (Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, UoL), to review Anne Boyer’s highly-publicised 2019 cancer memoir “The Undying”, and to respond to each other’s reviews. In this first of a three-part series, Agnes Arnold-Forster discovers a text that explores poverty, politics and the provision of healthcare, and offers a critique of individualised illness narratives.
Middle English Mouths
Hope Doherty reviews Katie L. Walter’s book “Middle English Mouths: Late Medieval, Religious and Literary Traditions” (Cambridge University Press, 2018).