11). Sontag's essay is hurried and sometimes careless. In places she contradicts herself. But it provokes us to think about metaphor, and it encourages us to look for symbolic associations and meanings everywhere in life, not just in highly self-conscious symbols like
AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects. 2. Metaphor. 3. Tuberculosis in literature. 4. Cancer in literature. I. Sontag, Susan,. AIDS and its metaphors 1990. II. Title. M644.A25$662 1990 89-23347. 306.4'61—(1020 CIP. First published in the United States by Famir, Straus and Ciroux. First combined edition of Illness as Metaphor and
The fantasies concocted around cancer, and around tuberculosis in earlier times, undergo close examination in Susan Son- tag's brilliant new book, Illness as Meta- phor. Her subject is the unreal and often punitive uses of illness as a figure or meta- phor in our culture. Her point is that ill- ness is not a metaphor, and that the
Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenges the victim-blaming in the language often used to describe diseases and those who suffer from them. Teasing out the similarities between public perspectives on cancer (the paradigmatic disease of the 20th century before the
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors [Susan Sontag] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as one of the most liberating books of its time. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book.
While painstakingly setting forth examples of illness-metaphors, and showing how any metaphor must be considered an historical and social construction, only rendered decipherable through an analysis that seeks to connect language with society, Illness as Metaphortoo easily accepts the total dependency of pdf.

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