TY  - GEN
T1  - Metaphor in Illness Writing
A1  - Wohlman, Anita
LA  - eng
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-99309
AB  - Listen to the interview with Anita Wohlmann about Metaphor in Illness Writing in New Books Network here. 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."
SN  - 9781399500869
SN  - 9781399500890
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - American
KW  - thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
ER  -