METAPHOR IN ILLNESS WRITING di WOHLMANN ANITA edito da EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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METAPHOR IN ILLNESS WRITING

Fight And Battle Reused

EAN:

9781399500869

ISBN:

1399500864

Pagine:
256
Formato:
Hardback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione METAPHOR IN ILLNESS WRITING

Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasising their varied usability 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. Anita Wohlmann is Associate Professor in Contemporary Anglophone Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

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