Title Beyond words : illness and the limits of expression / Kathlyn Conway.

Descript 1 online resource (xii, 168 pages) Series Literature and medicine series Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.) Note Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013). Originally published as: Illness and the limits of expression. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ℗♭2007. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-151) and index. Contents The cultural story of triumph -- Character : the damaged self -- Plot : the disrupted life -- Searching for a language -- Narrative form -- Endings. Summary The author, 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. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects. Catastrophic illness -- Psychological aspects. Medicine in literature. Health attitudes. Chronic Disease -- psychology Attitude to Health Catastrophic Illness -- psychology Critical Illness -- psychology Medicine in Literature HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine. MEDICAL -- Atlases. MEDICAL -- Essays. MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice. MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Osteopathy. Health attitudes. (OCoLC)fst00952808 Catastrophic illness -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00848924 Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00860087 Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167 Alt Author Conway, Kathlyn. Illness and the limits of expression. ISBN 9780826353252 (electronic bk.) 0826353258 (electronic bk.) 1299475469 (ebk) 9781299475465 (ebk) 082635324X 9780826353245 9780826353245 (pbk. ; alk. paper)