The Man Who Lost His Language - Couverture souple

Hale, Sheila

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0713993618 ISBN 13 : 9780713993615

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2002

Synopsis

John Hale was of the world's foremost Renaissance historians. Soon after delivering the second draft of the text of his masterpiece, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, Hale had a stroke that deprived him of the power of speech. His wife Sheila set out to find out what had happened and how John might be brought back to normal as far as possible. Her book gives a moving account of what it is like when a partner suffers a stroke and a sympathetic lay person's assessment of what is known about aphasia. But it is also an exploration of what aphasia can tell us about the nature of language, and how we construct our lives through it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sheila Hale is a distinguished travel writer and journalist and author of guides to Florence and Tuscany, Venice and Verona. She has written for a number of American and British newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0713993618
• ISBN 13: 9780713993615
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible