Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal - Couverture rigide

Gubar, Professor Susan

 
9780393246988: Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0393246981 ISBN 13 : 9780393246988
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Synopsis

Elaborating upon her "Living with Cancer" column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer's wrongs. To stimulate the writing process, she proposes specific exercises, prompts, and models. In discussions of the diary of Fanny Burney, the stories of Leo Tolstoy and Alice Munro, numerous memoirs, novels, paintings, photographs, and blogs, Gubar shows how readers can learn from art that deepens our comprehension of what it means to live or die with the disease.

From a writer whose own memoir, Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer, was described by the New York Times Book Review as "moving and instructive...and incredibly brave," this volume opens a path to healing.

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À propos de l'auteur

Susan Gubar is an acclaimed memoirist and literary critic. Together with Sandra M. Gilbert, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. A Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Indiana University, she lives in Bloomington.

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Éditeur
W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393246981
ISBN 13 
9780393246988
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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