Postmodernizing the Literature and Medicine Canon: Self-Conscious Narration, Unruly Texts, and the Viae Ruptae of Narrative Medicine

Through the application of Genettian modes of analysis, Marta analyzes not only Martin Amis's Time's Arrow and Claude Simon's The Flanders Road, but also the medical clinical history. Taking what she has demonstrated in her study of voice, narrative level, and time in Amis and Simon to the study of the case history, medicine's primary text, Marta is able to create a new comprehension of medical convention. She explodes traditional notions of the place of the patient in the case history and replaces those notions with a nuanced and provocative understanding of the narrative forces embodied in the ordinary prose of physicians.