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Metaphor in illness writing : fight and battle reused / Anita Wohlmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wohlmann, Anita, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diseases in literature.
- Metaphor in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasizing their varied usability.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781399500883
- 1399500880
- OCLC:
- 1352975479
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