Metaphor in Illness Writing

Fight and Battle Reused

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvAnita Wohlmann,University of Southern Denmark) Wohlmann, Anita (Associate Professor in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

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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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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-31
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt348 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine
Antal sidor224
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399500876

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Anita Wohlmann is Associate Professor in Contemporary Anglophone Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. She co-edited three anthologies, among them Narrative Medizin: Praxisbeispiele aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum (2021) and Narrating Disability in Literature and Visual Media (2019). She is the author of Aged Young Adults: Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films (2014).

Metaphors in Illness Writing will be of great importance not only to literary scholars working in the fields of medical humanities and narrative medicine, but also to researchers and practitioners in the domain of medicine. It is one of the accomplishments of Wohlmann’s study that it consciously addresses both audiences. Despite this need to speak both to specialists in literary studies and to medical practitioners for whom the study of metaphor may seem quite novel, Wohlmann’s study never loses sight of the complexity of its topic: Metaphor in Illness Writing is highly complex and accessible at one and the same time, and it is tremendously well written.