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Beyond words : illness and the limits of expression / Kathlyn Conway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conway, Kathlyn.
- Series:
- Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.)
- Literature and medicine series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sick--Psychology.
- Sick.
- Patients' writings--History and criticism.
- Patients' writings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Author Kathlyn Conway, a three-time cancer survivor, believes that the triumphalist approach to writing about illness fails to do justice to the shattering experience of disease. By wrestling with the challenge of writing about the reality of serious illness and injury, she argues, writers can offer a truer picture of the complex relationship between body and mind"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The cultural story of triumph
- Character : the damaged self
- Plot : the disrupted life
- Searching for a language
- Narrative form
- Endings.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: Illness and the limits of expression. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299475465
- 1299475469
- 9780826353252
- 0826353258
- OCLC:
- 842963733
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