Wohlmann, Anita,  1979- <br/><br/>
Metaphor in illness writing :  fight and battle reused / 
Anita Wohlmann. 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  (c)2022. 
 - 1 online resource (vii, 216 pages). 
 - Contemporary cultural studies in illness, health and medicine .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Metaphor use: Strategies and methods --  Susan Sontag: Using metaphor "to see more, to hear more, to feel more" --  Audre Lorde: Stretching, risks and difference --  Anatole Broyard: A style for being ill; or, metaphor "light" --  David Foster Wallace's troubled little soldier: Narrative and irony --  From theory to practice: A method for using metaphor -- 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781399500883 9781399500890 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC2D2897  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>020691862  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Diseases in literature.<br/>Metaphor in literature.<br/>Literary Studies.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56  / .M483 2022