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, and medicine in England and its surrounding European
context. In keeping with the critical trend over the past decade to
foreground the matter of the body and the emotions, these essays
track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily
disease and health " physical, emotional, and spiritual. The
contributors to this collection approach their intriguing subjects
from a wide range of timely, theoretical, and interdisciplinary
perspectives, including the philosophy of language, semiotics, and
linguistics; ecology; women's and gender studies; religion; and the
history of medicine. The essays focus on works by Dante, Chaucer,
Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others; the genres of
epic, lyric, satire, drama, and the sermon; and cultural history
artifacts such as medieval anatomies, the arithmetic of plague
bills of mortality, meteorology, and medical guides for healthy
regimens.
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