Beyond words : illness and the limits of expression /
The author, 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 offer a truer pi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2013
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Colección: | Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The author, 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 offer a truer picture of the complex relationship between body and mind. -- Provided by publisher. |
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Notas: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013). Originally published as: Illness and the limits of expression. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2007. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 168 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-151) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780826353252 0826353258 1299475469 9781299475465 082635324X 9780826353245 |