01307nam a22002057a 4500 20180411115824.0 180411b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781930464131 International Book Distributors 17, Prakash Apartment, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj , New Delhi. 112090 06/04/2018 823.912 WOO Virginia Woolf ; Hermione Lee. On being ill. / Virginia Woolf. Ashfield, Mass. : Paris Press , 2002. xxxvi,122p. :18cm. 745 In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being's experience, it has never been the subject of literature--like the more acceptable subjects of war and love. We cannot quote Shakespeare to describe a headache. We must, Woolf says, invent language to describe pain. And though illness enhances our perceptions, she observes that it reduces self-consciousness; it is "the great confessional." Woolf discusses the cultural taboos associated with illness and explores how illness changes the way we read. Poems clarify and astonish, Shakespeare exudes new brilliance, and so does melodramatic fiction. Fiction. Disease Health. Virginia Woolf. BOOK 49330 49330 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2018-04-11 7 823.912 WOO 25053 2025-10-07 12:27:58 2025-09-11 2018-04-11 BOOK