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5 de dez. de 2002 · Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that 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.
1 de out. de 2013 · In 1978, 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, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment.
One of Sontag’s major contentions throughout Illness as Metaphor is, in fact, that a society’s collective thinking is both shaped and expressed by how a given illness is perceived and ...
1 DUAS DOENÇAS foram, intensamente e de modo similar, sobrecarregadas com ornamentos da metáfora: a tuberculose e o câncer. As fantasias inspiradas pela tuberculose no século passado, e pelo câncer agora,
4 de mai. de 2010 · Illness as metaphor by Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Publication date 1979 Topics Tuberculosis in literature, Cancer in literature, Tuberculose, Kanker, Metaforen
6 de set. de 2007 · Illness as Metaphor examines in more general than personal terms how society regards illness and being ill, in particular “the punitive or sentimental fantasies concocted about that situation.”. In a sense she still writes from her experience in focusing on descriptions of cancer (with some comparisons with tuberculosis, the disease that ...
6 de out. de 2021 · In “Illness as Metaphor,” Sontag shows how the concept of “fight” is used differently for different targets, namely cancer and tuberculosis. Through comparison, she reaches a fuller, more complex understanding of how the fight metaphor is used. Belaboring a metaphor can also involve other strategies. Audre Lorde, for example, wrote ...
