Driving, not Losing, the Plot: Narrative Patterns in Implicit and Explicit Fictional Representations of Dementia

This essay examines representations of dementia in literary works. It draws a distinction between those representations of dementia symptoms that can be understood as implicit and those that can be understood as explicit. Whereas implicit representations do not treat dementia as a distinct, clearly...

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Main Author: Völk Malte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2017-01-01
Series:Open Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0006