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dc.contributor.authorNesby, Linda Hamrin
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-26T11:46:25Z
dc.date.available2020-03-26T11:46:25Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-14
dc.description.abstractEpiphany is a literary device bringing forth an experience of sudden wisdom or insight and is particularly applied to literature from the romantic era. However, epiphanies are also present within contemporary autobiographical patient stories (pathographies) expressing something that is difficult and perhaps otherwise left unspoken. Kristian Gidlund’s pathography <i>I kroppen min. Resan mot livets slut och alltings början</i> (2013) deals with the author’s experience of having severe cancer. Gidlund was a non-religious person but at the end of his life, his blogposts included epiphanies or visionary moments regarding his afterlife. In this article the author shows how the use of epiphanies can be a subtle means of expressing thoughts and feelings when facing severe illness. Knowing how to identify and interpret epiphanies in pathographies can improve the abilities of relatives and medical staff to communicate with patients about existential matters and emotional distress. KAKA I would like to thank Rachael Reynolds and Paul Farmer for their most conscientious proofreading, and Dr. Christopher Oscarson for the accurate translation of the quotes from Kristian Gidlund’s book.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/ejss/49/2/article-p278.xml>https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/ejss/49/2/article-p278.xml. </a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationNesby lh. Pathographies and Epiphanies: Communicating about Illness. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. 2019;49(2):278-294en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1760860
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2019-0021
dc.identifier.issn2191-9399
dc.identifier.issn2191-9402
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/17868
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren_US
dc.relation.journalEuropean Journal of Scandinavian Studies
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbHen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040en_US
dc.titlePathographies and Epiphanies: Communicating about Illnessen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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