Beyond words
Conway, Kathlyn.
Beyond words illness and the limits of expression / [electronic resource] : Kathlyn Conway. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (184 p.) - Literature and medicine series .
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.
"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.
9780826353252
Medicine in Literature--Personal Narratives.
Critical Illness--psychology--Personal Narratives.
Catastrophic Illness--psychology--Personal Narratives.
Attitude to Health--Personal Narratives.
Chronic Disease--psychology--Personal Narratives.
Electronic books.
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Beyond words illness and the limits of expression / [electronic resource] : Kathlyn Conway. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (184 p.) - Literature and medicine series .
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.
"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.
9780826353252
Medicine in Literature--Personal Narratives.
Critical Illness--psychology--Personal Narratives.
Catastrophic Illness--psychology--Personal Narratives.
Attitude to Health--Personal Narratives.
Chronic Disease--psychology--Personal Narratives.
Electronic books.
610