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#### Defends conventional and even problematic illness metaphors by emphasizing their varied usability * Offers a more capacious understanding of metaphors by considering the varied, unpredictable, and surprising usability of metaphors * Uses a doubled approach to metaphors that is grounded in metaphor theory and narrative theory in order to illustrate the nuanced and complex ways in which even problematic metaphors can be engaged with * Identifies the distinct strategies that prominent writers use when they actively and creatively engage with metaphors * Makes a contribution to research at the boundaries of metaphor theory and narrative theory by analysing how metaphor and narrative intersect and interact with one another __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,

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Author

Anita Wohlmann

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781399500890

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Humanities