TY - CHAP

T1 - Against Metaphor – Against Interpretation

T2 - Widerständige Sprachfiguren der Verkörperung

AU - Steierwald, Ulrike Regine

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - The coincidence of the discourse of medicine and aesthetics has been a specific interplay since the enlightenment which is characterized by diagnostics, observation and determination. Psychological diagnostics and classification are unthinkable without social agreement and fixation of pathological indicators. The specific criteria for the classification of illness depend on the thinking of origin, sexuality, inheritance and evolution which determine the physiological and psychological standards and disorders particularly represented in the aesthetics of body and soul. These iconic and linguistic representations of disorder are strikingly relevant in contemporary literature as well as in the arts. Based on Illness as metaphor by Susan Sontag I try to figure out an alternative reading of illness as text. It’s about the materiality of the human body and the stories it tells. My project outlines the contradictions encountered when literally configurations of bodies elude the determinations of diagnosis and interpretation.

AB - The coincidence of the discourse of medicine and aesthetics has been a specific interplay since the enlightenment which is characterized by diagnostics, observation and determination. Psychological diagnostics and classification are unthinkable without social agreement and fixation of pathological indicators. The specific criteria for the classification of illness depend on the thinking of origin, sexuality, inheritance and evolution which determine the physiological and psychological standards and disorders particularly represented in the aesthetics of body and soul. These iconic and linguistic representations of disorder are strikingly relevant in contemporary literature as well as in the arts. Based on Illness as metaphor by Susan Sontag I try to figure out an alternative reading of illness as text. It’s about the materiality of the human body and the stories it tells. My project outlines the contradictions encountered when literally configurations of bodies elude the determinations of diagnosis and interpretation.

KW - Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

KW - Literaturwissenschaft

KW - Kunstwissenschaft

UR - http://www.aisthesis.de/WebRoot/Store20/Shops/63645342/MediaGallery/leseproben/9783849811976.pdf

M3 - Aufsätze in Sammelwerken

SN - 978-3-8498-1197-6

SP - 199

EP - 219

BT - Literatur in der Medienkonkurrenz

A2 - Dörr, Volker

A2 - Goebel, Rolf J.

PB - Aisthesis Verlag

CY - Bielefeld

ER -