Title Latin American and Iberian perspectives on literature and medicine / edited by Patricia Novillo-Corvalán

Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31 Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31 Contents 1. Introduction : medical humanities perspectives on Iberian and Latin American literature / Patricia Novillo-Corvalán -- 2. Explorers of the human brain : the neurological insights of Borges and Ramón y Cajal / Patricia Novillo-Corvalán -- 3. The anti-diagnostics of Júlio Dinis and the medical hubris of Egas Moniz / Suzanne Black -- Oculists and other modern visionaries : epistemological myopia in José Fernandez Bremón's Un crimen científico / Rocío Rødtjer -- 5. Emilia Pardo Bazán and the diagnosis of cultural diseases / Anne W. Gilfoil -- 6. Darwinism and identity : evolution, science and medicine in Aluísio Azevedo's O mulato / Elizabeth A. Marchant -- 7. Simón Bolívar's illness in Gabriel García Márquez's The general in his labyrinth / Olivia Vázquez-Medina -- 8. Healing the family in Laura Esquivel's Like water for chocolate / Debra D. Andrist -- 9. Health and/as sickness in the fiction of Julio Cortázar / Dominic Moran -- 10. Asthma and its symbolism : the respiratory aesthetics of José Lezama Lima / William Rowlandson -- 11. Illness and utopia in Alejo Carpentier's The lost steps and Severo Sarduy's Beach birds / Guillermina De Ferrari -- 12. Calligraphies of illness in contemporary Catalan culture : the power of metaphor / Montserrat Lunati Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Comparative literature -- Iberian and Latin American Comparative literature -- Latin American and Iberian Latin American literature -- History and criticism. Literature and medicine. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Latin American literature. Literature and medicine. Literature. Iberian Peninsula -- Literatures -- History and criticism Europe -- Iberian Peninsula. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Novillo-Corvalán, Patricia, editor. ISBN 1315741792 1317584228 9781315741796 9781317584223

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