Metaphor in Illness Writing

Language: English

Published by Edinburgh University Press, GB, 2024

1399500872 / 9781399500876

Series: Book 2 of 5 - Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine

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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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Title
Metaphor in Illness Writing
Author
Anita Wohlmann
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press, GB
Publication year
2024
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Paperback
Language
English
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1399500872
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9781399500876
Series
Book 2 of 5: Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine

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