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020			_a9781930464131
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b17, Prakash Apartment, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj , New Delhi. _c112090 _d06/04/2018
082			_a823.912 WOO
100			_aVirginia Woolf _a; Hermione Lee.
245			_aOn being ill. _c/ Virginia Woolf.
260			_aAshfield, Mass. _b : Paris Press _c, 2002.
300			_axxxvi,122p. _c:18cm.
365			_b745
520			_aIn 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.
655			_aFiction. _bDisease _bHealth.
700			_aVirginia Woolf.
942			_cBOOK
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