Ebook: Beyond words : illness and the limits of expression
Author: Conway Kathlyn
- Series: Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque N.M.)
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- City: Albuquerque
- Language: English
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"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.