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A simple diagram of a narrative arc for a chronic illness story as it might traditionally be drawn. Tracing a black arch shape from left to right, it begins with 'inciting incident' as 'Onset of illness?' or 'Flare up?', moves into 'Rising Tension' followed by 'Climax' at the top of the arch and ends with 'Resolution' as 'Diagnosis? Cure? Death? Acceptance?'

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Refusing Resolution? Exploring Unresolveable Illness and Story Endings

14 December 202214 December 2022

Charlotte Heather explains why chronic illness stories can productively trouble standard ideas about narrative arc and resolution. Lazard wrote that chronic illness ‘experiences are difficult to narrativize: they have no arc’ (Lazard 2013) and

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Ecologies of Skin, Gender and Landscape: an Experiment with Practice as Research

23 July 202116 July 2021

Freya Verlander reflects on an experiment leading seminar participants on a virtual ‘skin safari’. Part of the series ‘Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities’, guest edited for The Polyphony by Rebecca Rosenberg and Benjamin Dalton.

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