Malady and Mortality - Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture Conference, Falmouth University, Cornwall 19-20th September 2013 Keynote Speakers: Professor Tony Walter, Centre for Death, University of Bath Professor Alan Bleakley, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Papers are invited on the following topics: Health, Well Being and Environment History of Medicine Public Health and Medicine Disease and Subjectivity Disability and Agency The Body in Pain Palliative Care Illness and Digital Technologies Narrative, e-Narratives and Memory Medical Int

Nicholas Royle's (literary critic, theorist and now novelist) debut novella Quilt (2010, Myriad Editions) is a disorienting journey into an unnamed man's pathological experience of mourning after the death of his father. At work in the piece is a subtle and emotive handling of memory, a disruption of linear time, along with much more in the novella's fashioning, most notably the excessive coining of portmanteaus, that sets in motion a conscious interrogation of ...