Beyond words [electronic resource] : illness and the limits of expression / Kathlyn Conway.

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Conway, Kathlyn

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TextSeries: Publication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)ISBN:

9780826353252

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Electronic books.

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610 23

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Contents:

The cultural story of triumph -- Character : the damaged self -- Plot : the disrupted life -- Searching for a language -- Narrative form -- Endings.

Summary: "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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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.

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