Metaphor in illness writing : : fight and battle reused / / Anita Wohlmann.
Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasizing their varied usability.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh, Scotland : : Edinburgh University Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine Ser.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 pages) |
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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