Beyond words illness and the limits of expression
"Author Kathlyn Conway, a three-time cancer survivor, believes that the triumphalist approach to writing about illness fails to do justice to the shattering experience of disease. By wrestling with the challenge of writing about the reality of serious illness and injury, she argues, writers can...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press
2013.
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| Series: | Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797948006719 |
Table of Contents:
- The cultural story of triumph
- Character : the damaged self
- Plot : the disrupted life
- Searching for a language
- Narrative form
- Endings.
