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Illness, Healing, and the Literary Imagination

February 2022

Keynote Address, Creativity in Crisis

Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.121.a8n3

How to Heal a Nation using Freud? On the Treatment of National Vices according to Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz

Daniel Kalinowski

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.122.a8n3

Bombay Fever, the Toujours Vu, and Our Plague Era: A Phenomenology of Reflexivity

Jason S Polley

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.123.a8n3

Detecting the Self: Dis-eases and Spirituality in Contemporary Popular (Japanese) Literature

Amy Lee Dean

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.124.a8n3

Skepticism in Belief: Pandemics, Procopius, and Political Schism

Stephanie Laine Hamilton

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.125.a8n3

Marguerite Duras L'Amour: Understanding Madness through Foucault’s Concepts of ‘Biopower’ and ‘Biopolitics’

Fouzia Usmani

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.126.a8n3

Hypochondriac Notions: Thoughts on the Language of Disease in J.D. Salinger’s “Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters”

Serena Demichelis

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.127.a8n3

Amidst the Pandemic: A Study of Katherine Anne Porter’s “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”

Jap Preet Kaur Bhangu

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.128.a8n3

Death, Disease and Disillusionment: Logotherapy and Survival Motivation in Somerset Maugham’s “The Painted Veil”

Navreet Sahi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.129.a8n3

Progeria and Stigma of Normality in Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

Sowmya Srinivasan

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.130.a8n3

Blindness as a Trope: Probing the Metaphorical Illness and Understanding the Socio-Political Reality in José Saramago's Blindness

Sudipta Saha

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.131.a8n3

The Mortal Condition: Four Epidemic Tales from Late Colonial-India

Amrapalli Mohan Sharma

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.132.a8n3

Locating Death, Disease and Salvation in the Selected Hindu Scriptures: A Critical Examination

Ajay K. Chaubey & Sarvesh Kumar Pandey

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.133.a8n3

Representation of Illness and Death in Bollywood: A Comparative Analysis of Devdas and Dil Bechara

Priya Meena & Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.134.a8n3

The Paroxysm of Pandemics: Human Mutation from Dysphoria to Euphoria

Charu Ahluwalia

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.135.a8n3

Spiritual and Emotional Illnesses: Recovery and Healing in Indigenous Women’s Poetry

Swarnim Subba

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.136.a8n3

The Healing Power of Poetry: A Study of the Select Works of John Keats

Masrat Yousuf

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.137.a8n3

Identity Crisis, Depression, Death and Political Allegory in Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House

Saurav Shandil

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.138.a8n3

Pandemic Woes, Undead Foes: A Case Study of the CDC’s “Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic” Graphic Novel

Nilak Datta and Neha Yadav

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.139.a8n3

Facing the Threat of Plague: A Study of Two Indian Short Stories

Sonika Thakur

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.140.a8n3

Disease, Death, and Desire in Githa Hariharan's “The Remains of the Feast”

Amirtha Devarajan

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.141.a8n3

Stigmatization of Mental Illness: Analysis of Women’s Condition Through “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Newspaper Articles on Women

Nida Ambreen

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.142.a8n3

Contagion: The Compelling Thriller of a Prophetic Narrative during COVID 19

Monali Chatterjee

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.143.a8n3

Healing as Narrative Strategy in Fiction

Nilakshi Roy

Article DOI:10.21659/mejo22.144.a8n3