Franziska Gygax

List of John Benjamins publications in which Franziska Gygax is involved.

Title

Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines

Edited by Franziska Gygax and Miriam A. Locher

This collection of original chapters gives center stage to the concept of ‘narrative’ in medical contexts. The contributors come from the disciplines of literary and cultural studies, linguistics, psychology, and medicine and work with texts as diverse as autobiographies, graphic novels,… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 20] 2015. vii, 217 pp.

Articles

Gygax, Franziska 2015 “Woundable, around the bounds”: Life (beyond) writing and terminal illness Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines, Gygax, Franziska and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 33–46 | Article

Writing about death and inscribing it into their texts is a way of exploring a realm neither dying autobiographers nor their readers can know about. Since writing about death seems to fall out of the paradigm of representation, writing about it means writing about what cannot be known, and yet, in… read more

Gygax, Franziska and Miriam A. Locher 2015 Introduction to narrative matters in medical contexts across disciplines Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines, Gygax, Franziska and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article

This chapter introduces the collection on Narrative Matters across Disciplines in Medical Contexts and positions the interdisciplinary research subject. The chapter discusses the importance of narrative practices and supports the claim that ‘narrative’ should be given a central position within the… read more