TY  - BOOK
AU  - Virginia Woolf
AU  - Virginia Woolf.
TI  - On being ill
SN  - 9781930464131
U1  - 823.912 WOO 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Ashfield, Mass.
PB  -  : Paris Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Disease
KW  - Health
N2  - 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
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