Metaphor in Illness Writing : : Fight and Battle Reused / / Anita Wohlmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Wohlmann, Anita,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasizing their varied usabilityOffers a more capacious understanding of metaphors by considering the varied, unpredictable, and surprising usability of metaphorsUses a doubled approach to metaphors that is grounded in metaphor theory and narrative theory in order to illustrate the nuanced and complex ways in which even problematic metaphors can be engaged withIdentifies the distinct strategies that prominent writers use when they actively and creatively engage with metaphorsMakes a contribution to research at the boundaries of metaphor theory and narrative theory by analysing how metaphor and narrative intersect and interact with one anotherMetaphor 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Metaphor Use: Strategies and Methods -- 2. Susan Sontag: Using Metaphor ‘to see more, to hear more, to feel more’ -- 3. Audre Lorde: Stretching, Risks and Difference -- 4. Anatole Broyard: A Style for Being Ill; or, Metaphor ‘Light’ -- 5. David Foster Wallace’s Troubled Little Soldier: Narrative and Irony -- 6. From Theory to Practice: A Method for Using Metaphor -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index