The poetics and politics of Alzheimer's disease life-writing. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martina Zimmermann.
• Authors: (Researcher in health humanities), Zimmermann, Martina
• Contents: Introduction: Critically Reading Dementia Narratives: Amplifying Advocacy -- Chapter 1: Of Wives and Daughters: The Stereotype of Caring Females? -- Chapter 2: From a "Care-Free" Distance: Sons Talking About Cultural Concepts -- Chapter 3: About Tradition and Triumph: Patients Popularise Dementia Narrative -- Chapter 4: On Reclaiming Authority: The Enabling Discourse of Alzheimer's Disease -- Conclusion: Dementia Narratives -- Shifter of Perspectives and Values -- Bibliography -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 PDF file (viii, 167 pages))
• Subjects: 809.04; Literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century; British literature; Dementia -- psychology; Patients -- psychology; Narration; Caregivers -- psychology; Personal Narratives as Topic; British literature; Literature; Literature, Modern; Psychiatry; Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319443881; 3319443887
• Related ISBNs: 9783319443874; 3319443879
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Dec. 14, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.