On being ill. / Virginia Woolf.
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TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | 17, Prakash Apartment, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj , New Delhi.Publication details: Ashfield, Mass. : Paris Press , 2002.Description: xxxvi,122p. :18cmISBN: - 9781930464131
- 823.912 WOO
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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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