Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused by Anita Wohlmann Paperback

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Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasizing their varied usability.

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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.

Author Biography

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).

Review

Anita Wohlmann argues that metaphors in illness writing, however common, can be upcycled in dynamic ways, even reborn from ashes. I am convinced! Her book is a metaphorical gem, a work of meticulous inquiry into trope redux and renewed. I discovered deep value at each footfall. Beautifully written, mightily provocative.--Alan Bleakley, University of PlymouthIn lucid and lively prose, Anita Wohlmann greatly expands our understanding of metaphor while combining deft close readings with practical application. This marvellous account of metaphor's many uses and reuses will become an essential reference point for literary studies as well as the medical humanities.--Rita Felski, University of Virginia and University of Southern Denmark

Details ISBN1399500872 Author Anita Wohlmann Pages 224 Publisher Edinburgh University Press Series Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781399500876 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-05-31 Imprint Edinburgh University Press Subtitle Fight and Battle Reused Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-05-31 ISBN-10 1399500872 DEWEY 809.9335 AU Release Date 2024-09-09 Alternative 9781399500869 We've got this

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