Franziska Gygax
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franziska Gygax |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franziska |
| FAMILY NAME | Gygax |
| SIGNATURE | GYGAX F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Last Narratives
Research on palliative care emphasizes the crucial role of narratives in the encounter with suffering and dying patients because we need to learn from the dying in order to improve care for them. Autobiographical narratives by terminally ill writers contribute to a more encompassing understanding of what it means to be dying as they often thematize dying and death, besides theorizing all kinds of implications of terminal illness. Among such autot…
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The Wounded Self
Reviewed by: The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature by Nina Schmidt Franziska Gygax (bio) The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature Nina Schmidt Camden House, 2018, xii + 235 pages. ISBN 9781640140165, $75.00 hardback. At the beginning of her comprehensive and excellently argued study of autobiographical representations of illness in contemporary German literature, Nina Schmid…
A Life A Life A Life
The morphological basis of urban design
Reconciling progress, on the one hand, and conservation of a rich legacy of physical forms from the past on the other, is a major challenge. In the case of Venice significant change is only possible in its outlying districts, such as Giudecca, since only measures preserving the fabric of the buildings are permitted in the Centro Storico. Giudecca island is used as a case study to explore ways of integrating new ideas in an area which is very much…
Serious Daring from Within
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Serious Daring from Within
The morphological basis of urban design
Reconciling progress, on the one hand, and conservation of a rich legacy of physical forms from the past on the other, is a major challenge. In the case of Venice significant change is only possible in its outlying districts, such as Giudecca, since only measures preserving the fabric of the buildings are permitted in the Centro Storico. Giudecca island is used as a case study to explore ways of integrating new ideas in an area which is very much…
A Life A Life A Life
The Wounded Self
Reviewed by: The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature by Nina Schmidt Franziska Gygax (bio) The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature Nina Schmidt Camden House, 2018, xii + 235 pages. ISBN 9781640140165, $75.00 hardback. At the beginning of her comprehensive and excellently argued study of autobiographical representations of illness in contemporary German literature, Nina Schmid…
Last Narratives
Research on palliative care emphasizes the crucial role of narratives in the encounter with suffering and dying patients because we need to learn from the dying in order to improve care for them. Autobiographical narratives by terminally ill writers contribute to a more encompassing understanding of what it means to be dying as they often thematize dying and death, besides theorizing all kinds of implications of terminal illness. Among such autot…
Rearranged
Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · History (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · Life writing (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)