| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 216 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Contemporary cultural studies in illness, health and medicine |
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Contemporary cultural studies in illness, health and medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Metaphor use: Strategies and methods -- Susan Sontag: Using metaphor "to see more, to hear more, to feel more" -- Audre Lorde: Stretching, risks and difference -- Anatole Broyard: A style for being ill; or, metaphor "light" -- David Foster Wallace's troubled little soldier: Narrative and irony -- From theory to practice: A method for using metaphor -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or dismissed. Metaphors are not inherently harmful or beneficial; instead, they can be used in unexpected and creative ways. This book analyses the illness writing of contemporary North American writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful metaphor 'illness is a fight' and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance, self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. It joins a conversation in Medical Humanities about alternatives to the predominance of narrative and responds to the call for more metaphor literacy and metaphor competence"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Anita Wohlmann is Associate Professor in Contemporary Anglophone Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Diseases in literature.
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Metaphor in literature.
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Literary Studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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Diseases in literature. (OCoLC)fst00895210
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Metaphor in literature. (OCoLC)fst01018298
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wohlmann, Anita. Metaphor in illness writing. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022 1399500864 (OCoLC)1298384560 |
| ISBN |
9781399500883 webready PDF |
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1399500880 webready PDF |
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9781399500890 epub |
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1399500899 epub |
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