32.2634, Books: The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury: Colbeck

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Subject: 32.2634, Books: The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury: Colbeck

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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 22:16:47
From: Khadija Ahmed [khadija.ahmed at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury: Colbeck

 


Title: The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury 
Subtitle: Representations in Literature, Film and Media 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-and-imagery-of-coma-and-brain-injury-9781350077799 


Author: Matthew Colbeck

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350077805 Pages: 226 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: ePDF
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350077812 Pages: 226 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: ePub
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350077799 Pages: 226 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

"What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the
patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all?"

The simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the sheer
volume of literary and media texts would have us believe that we do. Examining
representations of coma and brain injury across a variety of texts, this book
investigates common tropes and linguistic devices used to portray the medical
condition of coma, giving rise to universal mythologies and misconceptions in
the public domain. Matthew Colbeck looks at how these texts represent, or fail
to represent, long-term brain injury, drawing on narratives of coma survivors
that have been produced and curated through writing groups he has run over the
last 10 years.

Discussing a diverse range of cultural works, including novels by Irvine
Welsh, Stephen King, Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland, as well as film and
media texts such as The Sopranos, Kill Bill, Coma and The Walking Dead,
Colbeck provides an explanation for our fascination with coma. With a
proliferation of misleading stories of survival in the media and in
literature, this book explores the potential impact these have upon our own
understanding of coma and its victims.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)

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