The Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Film, and Memoir

Jeffrey Berman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-16657-8 (ISBN)

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Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines an analysis of care narratives to inform and inspire ideas about this major role in life. Alongside analysis of narratives drawn from literature and film, the author sensitively interweaves the story of his wife's illness and care to illuminate perspectives on dealing with human decline.

Examining texts from a diverse range of authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton and Alice Munro, and filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Michael Haneke, it addresses questions such as why caregiving is a dangerous activity, the ethical problems of writing about caregiving, the challenges of reading about caregiving, and why caregiving is so important. It serves as a fire starter on the subject of how we can gain insight into the challenges and opportunities of caregiving through the creative arts.

Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University at Albany, USA. He has written on a wide range of subjects, including literature and psychoanalysis, the pedagogy of self-disclosure, love and loss, and death education.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Idealized Caregiver in Tolstoy’s The Death Of Ivan Ilych
2. Caregivers as Prisoners For Life in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome
3. Unmasking the Caregiver in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona
4. The Caregiver as Matchmaker in Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over The Mountain” and Sarah Polley’s Away From Her
5. Caregiving Strategies For Survival in John Bayley’s Elegy For Iris, Iris And Her Friends, and Widower’s House
6. A Few True Things About Caregiving in Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing
7. The Avenging Caregiver in Mary Gordon’s Circling My Mother
8. Murderous Caregiving in Michael Haneke’s Amour
9. The Divine Gift Of Caregiving in Walter Mosley’s The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey
10. Caregiving as a Progress Narrative in Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s Writings
11. Caregivers Struggling to Make the Right Decisions
in Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal
Conclusion: Caregiving: A Beautiful Story?
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-16657-X / 135016657X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-16657-8 / 9781350166578
Zustand	Neuware