Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

by Jennifer C. Vaught

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Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:113826606X

ISBN13:9781138266063

Release Date:November 2016

Publisher:Routledge

Length:260 Pages

Weight:0.81 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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