Janine Rogers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3860810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janine Rogers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janine |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogers |
| SIGNATURE | ROGERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Allison University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changi…
Introduction
Losing Touch with Nature
A Compaignye of Sondry Folk
An exploration is presented of the use of Chaucerian poetics, specifically literary form, allegory and medieval compilation theory, to present evolution as a poetic structure in Richard Dawkins’ The Ancestor’s Tale, which is a popular scientific explanation of evolution modelled on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Dawkins addresses common misunderstandings of evolutionary theory, in particular regarding anthropocentric visions of human exceptional…
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changi…
A Compaignye of Sondry Folk
An exploration is presented of the use of Chaucerian poetics, specifically literary form, allegory and medieval compilation theory, to present evolution as a poetic structure in Richard Dawkins’ The Ancestor’s Tale, which is a popular scientific explanation of evolution modelled on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Dawkins addresses common misunderstandings of evolutionary theory, in particular regarding anthropocentric visions of human exceptional…
Losing Touch with Nature
Introduction
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changi…
History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Ancestor (1 works) · Anthropocentrism (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Démence dans la littérature (1 works) · Dementia in literature (1 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (1 works)