Beyond Words [Recurso electrónico] : Illness and the Limits of Expression / Kathlyn Conway.
Tipo de material:
TextoSeries Literature and medicine series | Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.) | Book collections on Project MUSEDetalles de publicación: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013. 2015)Descripción: 1 online resource (xii, 168 p. )Tipo de contenido: - texto
- con mediación
- online resource
- 9780826353252
- 610
- R726.5 .C673 2013
Originally published as: Illness and the limits of expression. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The cultural story of triumph -- Character : the damaged self -- Plot : the disrupted life -- Searching for a language -- Narrative form -- Endings.
Libro Electrónico
"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 offer a truer picture of the complex relationship between body and mind"--Provided by publisher.
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