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For some critics, illness narratives, as a genre, pose a unique issue in the critical realm as it seeks to draw wider attention to writing about illness and to argue for new approaches to both literary criticism and teaching narrative. The present paper focuses on several ways in which "the seductive entrance of disease into language," (William Osler), together with the complex interaction between the collapse of the body and that of the narrative, illuminate, and sometimes complicate, central notions in our interpretation of the narrative text. More specifically, and through my reading of several short stories from Lorrie Moore's collections of short fiction, I shall demonstrate how the disintegration of the body disrupts not only our sense of temporal continuity but also our capacity to construct causality and comprehend reality itself.
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