@inbook{55611fd8c9f44ee8a3318fe8296a26a6,
title = "Shizhi and Wen Jie : Two Chinese Poets",
abstract = "Recently, proponents of the Critical Medical Humanities have recommended more genre-specific approaches to the analyses of illness narratives, looking at cultural specificities of idioms of distress rather than exclusively at transhistorical or transcultural approaches. This genre-specific critique grounds my reading of the work of Chinese poets Guo Lusheng (*1948) and Wen Jie (*1963), diagnosed with schizophrenia and clinical depression, respectively. The study uncovers a lyrical voice that takes shape in the poets{\textquoteright} illness-related contents, but also in the formal aspects of the Chinese poetic tradition. I argue that the therapeutic delight of writing poetry lies less in expressing subjective experiences than in finding poetic forms that integrate individual experiences into a collective form of illness poetics.",
author = "{BUNZEL LINDER}, Birgit",
note = "This essay is a small and modified excerpt from Birgit Bunzel Linder: Metaphors unto themselves – mental illness poetics and narratives in recent Chinese poetry. In: Howard Y. F. Choy (ed.): Discourses of disease: writing illness, the mind and the body in modern China. Leiden 2016, pp. 90– 121.",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783825378394",
volume = "10",
pages = "91--107",
editor = "Florian STEGER",
booktitle = "Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin",
publisher = "Universitats Verlag, C. Winter",
}