Avril Tynan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3746012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avril Tynan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avril |
| FAMILY NAME | Tynan |
| SIGNATURE | TYNAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6016-0696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Narrative Syncope in Jorge Semprún’s L’Évanouissement
Franco-Spanish author Jorge Semprún’s second published novel, L’Évanouissement (1967), has received almost no scholarly or public attention. Described as a draft of future works, it often serves as a reference point for analyses of his other, better-known narratives and novels. In this article, I focus on L’Évanouissement as a novel of disruption, dissonance, and anticipation. Through the idea of the syncope, and of lyrical syncopation, I argue t…
Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics
The story isn’t over
In her introduction to The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind, Martina Zimmermann writes that contemporary discourses present loss as the key concept for thinking about and understanding dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. In this article, I focus on the perceived loss of the future in fictional representations of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and the role that this anticipatory absence plays in the foreclosure of a life story. I sugge…
Anticipating Illness
Knock ou Le Triomphe de la Médicine [ Knock, or the Triumph of Medicine ] (1923) is a satirical play by Jules Romains parodying the hierarchical power relationship between patient and doctor and the supposed infallibility of science in the early twentieth century. Drawing on the phenomenological work of German physician Herbert Plügge (1970), I argue that the play exploits the physical interconnections between the healthy body and the sick body t…
Demythologizing de Gaulle
History, like fiction, is a narrative interpretation of events, and its writing or telling of the past is always mediated from a present position. The narratological turn in historical discourse from the 1960s challenged the assumption that accounts of the past were the objective accumulation of documented facts and emphasized the ideological mediation of historiography. With a focus on Roland Barthes’s poststructuralist theory of myth as a herme…
Mind the Gap
The “narrative turn” in biomedical discourses has dominated twenty-first-century medical humanities, pursuing the premise that narratives of illness, including patient and literary narratives, contribute toward our understanding of illness because they encourage us to reflect upon lived reality and even to imagine events and experiences with which we may be grossly unfamiliar (Charon et al.; Charon; Oyebode; Halpern; Altschuler). However, an emer…
Life after literature
Writing and life, literature and history
Writing and life, literature and history: on Jorge Semprun." Modern & Contemporary France, 25(1), pp. 101–102
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Writing and life, literature and history
Writing and life, literature and history: on Jorge Semprun." Modern & Contemporary France, 25(1), pp. 101–102
Mind the Gap
The “narrative turn” in biomedical discourses has dominated twenty-first-century medical humanities, pursuing the premise that narratives of illness, including patient and literary narratives, contribute toward our understanding of illness because they encourage us to reflect upon lived reality and even to imagine events and experiences with which we may be grossly unfamiliar (Charon et al.; Charon; Oyebode; Halpern; Altschuler). However, an emer…
Life after literature
Demythologizing de Gaulle
History, like fiction, is a narrative interpretation of events, and its writing or telling of the past is always mediated from a present position. The narratological turn in historical discourse from the 1960s challenged the assumption that accounts of the past were the objective accumulation of documented facts and emphasized the ideological mediation of historiography. With a focus on Roland Barthes’s poststructuralist theory of myth as a herme…
The story isn’t over
In her introduction to The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind, Martina Zimmermann writes that contemporary discourses present loss as the key concept for thinking about and understanding dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. In this article, I focus on the perceived loss of the future in fictional representations of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and the role that this anticipatory absence plays in the foreclosure of a life story. I sugge…
Anticipating Illness
Knock ou Le Triomphe de la Médicine [ Knock, or the Triumph of Medicine ] (1923) is a satirical play by Jules Romains parodying the hierarchical power relationship between patient and doctor and the supposed infallibility of science in the early twentieth century. Drawing on the phenomenological work of German physician Herbert Plügge (1970), I argue that the play exploits the physical interconnections between the healthy body and the sick body t…
Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics
Narrative Syncope in Jorge Semprún’s L’Évanouissement
Franco-Spanish author Jorge Semprún’s second published novel, L’Évanouissement (1967), has received almost no scholarly or public attention. Described as a draft of future works, it often serves as a reference point for analyses of his other, better-known narratives and novels. In this article, I focus on L’Évanouissement as a novel of disruption, dissonance, and anticipation. Through the idea of the syncope, and of lyrical syncopation, I argue t…
Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Literature (2 works)