Anita Wohlmann 
Metaphor in Illness Writing [PDF ebook] 
Fight and Battle Reused

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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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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9781399500883 ● Publisher Edinburgh University Press, ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8829518 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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