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Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenged the victim-blaming in the language that is often used to describe diseases and the people affected by them.
illness is not a metaphor, and that the most truthful way of regarding illness—and the healthiest way of being ill —is one most purified of, most resistant to, metaphoric thinking. Yet it is hardly possible to take up one’s residence in the kingdom of the ill unprejudiced by the lurid metaphors with which it has been landscaped. It is ...
12 de dic. de 2011 · Illness as metaphor. by. Sontag, Susan, 1933-. Publication date. 1978. Topics. 22 cm, Tuberculosis in literature, Cancer in literature. Publisher. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
1 de ene. de 1978 · First published as an 87-page monograph in 1978, Illness as Metaphor critiques the dehumanizing myths and metaphors associated with the most infamous illnesses of modernity: TB in the nineteenth century, cancer in the twentieth. As always, Sontag reads as brusque and provocative.
1 de ene. de 1978 · Illness As Metaphor. Hardcover – January 1, 1978. by Susan Sontag (Author) 4.4 27 ratings. See all formats and editions. A discussion of the ways in which illness is regarded pays particular attention to fantasies that pertain to cancer. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length.
Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.
This controversial book-length essay by Susan Sontag explores the way in which the figurative language used to describe diseases such as tuberculosis and cancer has often expressed a psychological...
