Virginia Woolf ; Hermione Lee. creator Virginia Woolf. text Fiction.-Disease -Health. xxu Ashfield, Mass : Paris Press , 2002 monographic eng

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xxxvi,122p. :18cm. 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. / Virginia Woolf. 823.912 WOO 9781930464131 International Book Distributors 17, Prakash Apartment, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj , New Delhi. 180411 20180411115824.0