Representations of Alzheimer's Disease in Lisa Genova's Still Alice
- Favareille, Charlotte (2017)
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- Titre en français
- Representations of Alzheimer's Disease in Lisa Genova's Still Alice
- Auteur
- Favareille, Charlotte
- Directeur de recherche
- Vincent-Arnaud, Nathalie
- Date de soutenance
- 28 septembre 2017
- Établissement
- Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
- UFR ou composante
- Département Etudes du Monde Anglophone (DEMA)
- Diplôme
- M2 Etudes anglophones
- Mots-clés en français
- Alzheimer's disease
- Still Alice
- morbid literature
- Mots-clés
- Alzheimer
- Still Alice
- littérature morbide
- Résumé en français
- Alice is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This dissertation presents a literary analysis of Still Alice, in order to point at the ethical and therapeutical role of the novel. It analyses the representation of dementia and its impact on the protagonist, those around her, and on the narrative itself.
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Citation bibliographique
Favareille, Charlotte (2017), Representations of Alzheimer's Disease in Lisa Genova's Still Alice [Mémoire]