Beyond words : illness and the limits of expression / Kathlyn Conway.
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TextSeries: Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.)Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xii, 168 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780826353252
- 0826353258
- 1299475469
- 9781299475465
- 082635324X
- 9780826353245
- Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects
- Catastrophic illness -- Psychological aspects
- Medicine in literature
- Health attitudes
- Chronic Disease -- psychology
- Attitude to Health
- Catastrophic Illness -- psychology
- Critical Illness -- psychology
- Medicine in Literature
- Maladies chroniques -- Aspect psychologique
- Maladies graves -- Aspect psychologique
- Médecine dans la littérature
- Attitudes à l'égard de la santé
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference
- MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Atlases
- MEDICAL -- Essays
- MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice
- MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Osteopathy
- Health attitudes
- Catastrophic illness -- Psychological aspects
- Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects
- Medicine in literature
- 610 23
- RC108
- WT 500
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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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-151) and index.
The cultural story of triumph -- Character : the damaged self -- Plot : the disrupted life -- Searching for a language -- Narrative form -- Endings.
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.
Added to collection customer.56279.3