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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Clare Hayes-Brady, University College Dublin
  • Book: David Foster Wallace in Context
  • Published online: 18 November 2022
  • Print publication: 01 December 2022, pp 1-12
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    The volume will open with a brief introduction to Wallace’s work, including a list of works and a short biography. The introduction will also offer a brief history of Wallace Studies, identifying several waves of critical work that provide a useful critical framework for students and scholars, and providing some direction for further reading that will be picked up in a bibliography at the end of the volume. The introduction will also introduce readers to some of the key themes in Wallace Studies that the following chapters will take up, framing the rest of the volume in a clear and concise manner.

David Foster Wallace in Context
  • David Foster Wallace in Context
  • Edited by Clare Hayes-Brady
  • Published online: 18 November 2022
  • Print publication: 01 December 2022
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    David Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of Wallace's work. An accessible and useable resource, this volume conceptualizes his work within long-standing critical traditions and with a new awareness of his importance for American literary studies. It shows the range of issues and contexts that inform the work and reading of David Foster Wallace, connecting his writing to diverse ideas, periods and themes. Essays cover topics on gender, sex, violence, race, philosophy, poetry and geography, among many others, guiding new and long-standing readers in understanding the work and influence of this important writer.
  • Storytelling and poetry in the time of coronavirus
  • Elizabeth Barrett, Melissa Dickson, Clare Hayes-Brady, Harriet Wheelock
  • Journal: Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine / Volume 37 / Issue 4 / December 2020
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2020, pp. 278-282
  • Print publication: December 2020
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    The coronavirus crisis occurs at a time when many clinicians have already experienced burnout. One in three Irish doctors were suffering from burnout in the 2019 National Study of Wellbeing of Hospital Doctors in Ireland; rates are also high in Irish Psychiatry. We present a perspective on the use of narrative in medicine and recognise that storytelling, and the patient history are very much at the heart of medicine. Clinician storytelling, such as Schwartz Rounds and Balint group work, has very much come to the fore in Irish Psychiatry and in training. Projects such as MindReading have explored overlaps between clinicians, humanities experts and experts by experience. We give an overview of some approaches from the movement around narrative in medicine to bolster this. We explore why clinicians write as ways to support identification, catharsis and a way to process experiences. Clinicians and patients may also use literature and poetry to promote coping. The historical context and practical strategies are highlighted, particularly with reference to poetry use during the current crisis.