Metaphor in illness writing : fight and battle reused / Anita Wohlmann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Anita Wohlmann is Associate Professor in Contemporary Anglophone Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

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