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