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Blue Nights: The Experience of Frailty in Modern Thought and Life-Writing
Recorded October 18, 2022. A seminar by Prof Elizabeth Barry (Warwick) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. This seminar examines the concept and lived experience of frailty understood in relation to factors such as risk and change. Informed by the work on frailty of sociologist Susan Pickard and gerontologist Amande Grenier, and on the phenomenology of illness by Havi Carel, it will consider the depictions of the condition of frailty in the life-writing and fiction of prominent literary figures such as Marcel Proust, Colette, Joan Didion, and Candia McWilliam. Both…
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