Ways of forgetting: Memory and identity in Alzheimer’s fiction

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dc.contributor.author	Więckowska, Katarzyna	-
dc.date.accessioned	2017-11-23T12:56:26Z	-
dc.date.available	2017-11-23T12:56:26Z	-
dc.date.issued	2016	-
dc.identifier.citation	Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 14 (3/2016), pp. 67-75	pl
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11320/6003	-
dc.description.abstract	Alzheimer’s is a disease that poses a challenge to the established ways of thinking about the relation between memory, identity and narrative. In this article, I offer a reading of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice (2007), Stefan Merrill Block’s The Story of Forgetting (2008), and Matthew Thomas’s We Are Not Ourselves (2014) to examine the ways in which the increasingly popular literature of Alzheimer’s represents, and possibly reconfigures, the prevalent notions of identity and memory, as well as the relation between literature and science. A number of critics have noted a shift in contemporary literature demonstrated by the growing focus on neurological conditions. Accordingly, the analysis of Alzheimer’s novels refers to selected critical descriptions of this shift, including the discussions of syndrome literature and the neuronovel.	pl
dc.language.iso	en	pl
dc.publisher	The University of Bialystok	pl
dc.subject	memory	pl
dc.subject	identity	pl
dc.subject	Alzheimer’s fiction	pl
dc.subject	syndrome literature	pl
dc.subject	neuronovel	pl
dc.title	Ways of forgetting: Memory and identity in Alzheimer’s fiction	pl
dc.type	Article	pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.15290/cr.2016.14.3.07	-
dc.description.Email	klew@umk.pl	pl
dc.description.Biographicalnote	Katarzyna Więckowska is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, where she teaches cultural and literary studies. She has published Spectres of Men (2014) and On Alterity (2008), and edited and co-edited a number of volumes, including The Gothic (2012) and Ex-changes: Comparative Studies in British and American cultures (2012). Her research interests include contemporary British fiction and critical theory.	pl
dc.description.Affiliation	Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń	pl
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dc.description.pages	67-75	pl
dc.identifier.eissn	2300-6250	-
dc.description.issue	14 (3/2016)	-
dc.description.firstpage	67	pl
dc.description.lastpage	75	pl
dc.identifier.citation2	Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies	pl
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