Metaphor in Illness Writing : : fight and battle reused / / Anita Wohlmann.
"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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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 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 (vii, 216 pages). |
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| 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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| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Anita Wohlmann. |