Reading Closely: Bodies and Environments
Anna Ovaska and Kaisa Kortekallio examine the ways close reading can be used as a method for approaching vulnerable bodies and environments.
Neuromaani and the Poetics of Illness
Laura Piippo discusses the challenging poetics of illness in Jaakko Yli-Juonikas’s experimental novel.
Grief in End-of-Life Care During COVID-19
Deborah Madden discusses anticipatory grief and end-of-life grief narratives in the challenges of the COVID-19 era
Let’s Fight! Illness Metaphors and Their Many Uses
Anita Wohlmann considers how authors of illness narratives have consciously reworked the “fight” metaphor.
From Nobleness to Ugliness in Literary Illness Stories
Linda Nesby explores the emergence of the “ugly pathography” in contemporary Scandinavian illness narratives. Part of the SELMA Medical Humanities Seminar Series “Narratives of Illness”.
SELMA Medical Humanities: “Narratives of Illness” and “Indigenous Narratives of Health”
Marta-Laura Cenedese and Avril Tynan, convenors of the SELMA Medical Humanities Seminar Series at the University of Turku, Finland, reflect on the first season of the series, “Narratives of Illness”, and look ahead to a second season on “Indigenous Narratives of Healthcare”.