TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wohlmann,Anita
TI  - Metaphor in illness writing: fight and battle reused 
T2  - Contemporary cultural studies in illness, health and medicine
SN  - 9781399500883
AV  - PN56 .M483 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Diseases in literature
KW  - Metaphor in literature
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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 --; 2; b
N2  - "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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