Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England (repost)
Jennifer C. Vaught, "Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England"
Publisher: Ashgate | ISBN 10: 0754669483 | 2010 | PDF | 260 pages | 16.6 MB
Publisher: Ashgate | ISBN 10: 0754669483 | 2010 | PDF | 260 pages | 16.6 MB
Susan Sontag in "Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors" points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, and though her analyses deals 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.