Aids And Its Metaphors
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Aids And Its Metaphors PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Aids And Its Metaphors book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-01-31
Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with Medical categories.
In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is - just a disease. Cancer is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and highly curable, if good treatment is found early enough. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatised disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote Aids and its Metaphors, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.
Illness As Metaphor
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Illness As Metaphor written by Susan Sontag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Aids And Its Metaphors
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : S. Sontag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Aids And Its Metaphors written by S. Sontag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
Aids And Its Metaphors
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Aids And Its Metaphors written by Susan Sontag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
Rhetorics Of Bodily Disease And Health In Medieval And Early Modern England
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jennifer C. Vaught
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Rhetorics Of Bodily Disease And Health In Medieval And Early Modern England written by Jennifer C. Vaught and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science, and medicine in England and its surrounding European context. In keeping with the critical trend over the past decade to foreground the matter of the body and the emotions, these essays track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health ” physical, emotional, and spiritual. The contributors to this collection approach their intriguing subjects from a wide range of timely, theoretical, and interdisciplinary perspectives, including the philosophy of language, semiotics, and linguistics; ecology; women's and gender studies; religion; and the history of medicine. The essays focus on works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others; the genres of epic, lyric, satire, drama, and the sermon; and cultural history artifacts such as medieval anatomies, the arithmetic of plague bills of mortality, meteorology, and medical guides for healthy regimens.
Narrative Economics
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Robert J. Shiller
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
Narrative Economics written by Robert J. Shiller and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Business & Economics categories.
From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events—and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses Stories people tell—about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin—can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril—and how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls "narrative economics"—may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics. In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.
Under The Sign Of Saturn
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-05-16
Under The Sign Of Saturn written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as a dazzling analysis of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler, a Film from Germany. There are also highly personal and powerful explorations of death, art, language, history, the imagination and writing itself.
Infectious Rhythm
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Barbara Browning
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Infectious Rhythm written by Barbara Browning and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Art categories.
Barbara Browning follows the trail of "infectious rhythm" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the diasporic spread of African culture, and serves as the justification for its brutal repression. The essays in this book examine both the vital and violent ways in which recent associations have been made between the AIDS pandemic and African diasporic cultural practices, including religious worship, music, dance, sculpture, painting, orature, literature and film. While pointing to the lengthy and complex history of the metaphor of African contagion, Browning argues that in its politicized, life-affirming embodiment, the figure might actually teach us to respond to epidemia humanely.
To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Hervé Guibert
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2021-08-05
To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life written by Hervé Guibert and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Fiction categories.
With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Frieze editor Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White 'Unforgettable, heartbreaking' New York Times 'Brilliant' - Dazed 'As brutal as it is elegant' - Neil Bartlett 'Electrifying' - Colm Tóibín 'Dazzling' - Katherine Angel After being diagnosed with AIDS, Hervé Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life. In the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, from holidays to test centres, and charts the highs and lows of trying to cheat death. On publication in 1990, the novel scandalized French media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guibert's close friend Michel Foucault. The book became a bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. The book has since attained a cult following for its tender, fragmented and beautifully written accounts of illness, friendship, sex, art and everyday life. It catapulted Guibert into notoriety and sealed his reputation as a writer of shocking precision and power.
Styles Of Radical Will
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Styles Of Radical Will written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Literary Collections categories.
This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi', written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating account of America's identity and future, a robust and surprising discussion of pornography and other richly rewarding writings on art, film, literature and politics.