Metaphor in illness writing fight and battle reused
"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 contempor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2022©2022, 2022
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| Series: | Contemporary cultural studies in illness, health and medicine
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 216 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781399500869 1399500864 |