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Hace 2 días · In her book Illness as Metaphor and its companion essay ‘AIDS and its Metaphors’ , Susan Sontag explores the moralizing undercurrent present in the companion histories of metaphor and illness. Historically, many diseases were considered expressions of character defects or moral failings, stigmatizing illness itself as well as those who become ill.
10 de may. de 2024 · Illness as Metaphor is often read mistakenly as an argument that we shouldn’t talk about disease by using metaphorical language. But Sontag was really trying to capture cultural metaphors, not...
Hace 6 días · Read 304 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. A discussion of the ways in which illness is regarded pays particular attention to fantasi…
1 de may. de 2024 · In this interview, acclaimed author Salman Rushdie speaks with Erica Wagner about the deeply personal costs of championing free speech, the process of writing his new memoir, Knife, optimism as a disease, and the comedic foreshadowing of the attack that nearly took his life.
13 de may. de 2024 · Eligible sources include peer-reviewed scientific research published in English between 2013 and 2023, investigating patterns of metaphor use from adult populations (age ≥18) for cancer-related topics, such as cancer itself, the general experience of being ill, treatment, and people and relationships.
13 de may. de 2024 · In “Illness as Metaphor,” Susan Sontag had noted back in 1978 that “every physician and every attentive patient is familiar with, if perhaps inured to, this military terminology.”
19 de may. de 2024 · Sontag begins her essay Illness as metaphor (1978) (which argues against the use metaphors for illness) ironically with the following metaphor: Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.
