Medical Storyworlds Health, Illness, Bodies in Russian European Literature At Turn of

A propos de l'auteur

Elena Fratto is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.

Résumé

Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Elena Fratto
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre Relié
• Date de parution: 22.10.2021
• Catégorie: Livres de conseils > Psychologie, quotidien > Famille
• EAN: 9780231202329
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20232-9
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Catégories: Russia, Social Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, literary criticism; social science; literature and medicine, literature and medicine