Illness Narrative and Self-Help Culture – Self-Help Writing on Age-Related Infertility
Both self-help books and illness narratives are motivated by an impulse to overcome a crisis and, simultaneously, to help others who suffer from similar conditions. In doing so, authors of self-help and illness narratives move in between polar opposites: they have both individual and collective moti...
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Language: | English |
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University of Groningen Press
2014-11-01
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Series: | European Journal of Life Writing |
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Online Access: | https://ejlw.eu/article/view/31425 |