Beyond words : illness and the limits of expression / Kathlyn Conway.

By:

Conway, Kathlyn

Contributor(s):

Conway, Kathlyn. Illness and the limits of expression

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.)Publication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780826353252
0826353258
1299475469
9781299475465
082635324X
9780826353245

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

610 23

LOC classification:

RC108

NLM classification:

WT 500

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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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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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