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Begegnung mit einer Krankheit: Richard Wagners Herr Parkinson im internationalen Vergleich
Brigid Haines
Spiegelungen: Zeitschrift für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas, Volume: 137, Pages: 1 - 240
Swansea University Author: Brigid Haines
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Abstract
The paper examines the German-Romanian writer Richard Wagner's 2015 Herr Parkinson (Mr Parkinson), a memoir which attempts to come to terms with the onset and course of his Parkinson's Disease. The text is approached through comparison with the foundational Parkinson's patient texts,...
| Published in: | Spiegelungen: Zeitschrift für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas |
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| ISBN: | 978-3-7917-3021-9 |
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http://www.ikgs.de/spiegelungen |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33935 |
| Abstract: |
The paper examines the German-Romanian writer Richard Wagner's 2015 Herr Parkinson (Mr Parkinson), a memoir which attempts to come to terms with the onset and course of his Parkinson's Disease. The text is approached through comparison with the foundational Parkinson's patient texts, Michael J Fox's Lucky Man (2002) and Always Looking Up (2010), as well as with the essay and photo series Parkinson: Leben mit der Pechkrankheit (Parkinson: Living with the Unlucky Illness, 2012) by Gerhard Schumann; comparison is also made to the more common genre of the cancer narrative. While cancer narratives tend to speak of battles lost or won and focus on heroism, and Fox's Parkinson's texts are optimistic about the possibilities for accommodation with the disease, Wagner's Herr Parkinson, with its uncanny personification of his new unwelcome and all-powerful companion, presents a gloomier view of an intruded-upon - for Parkinson's starts in the brain - life. |
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| Item Description: |
First presented to the conference Hundert Jahre Temeswarer Germanistik (One Hundred Years of German Studies in Timisoara) at the University of Timisoara, Romania, 20-22 October 2016, as the guest of the Institut fuer Deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Suedostouropas (Institute for the German Culture and History of South East Europe), Munich University. |
| Keywords: |
Parkinson's Disease, illness narratives |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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1 |
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240 |