Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors: AND AIDS and Its Metaphors
基本信息·出版社：Penguin Classics ·页码：192 页 ·出版日期：2002年12月 ·ISBN：0141187123 ·International Standard Book Number：0141187123 · ...
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基本信息·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：192 页
·出版日期：2002年12月
·ISBN：0141187123
·International Standard Book Number：0141187123
·条形码：9780141187129
·EAN：9780141187129
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Modern Classics
·分册名：AND AIDS and Its Metaphors
内容简介 Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor" in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study, she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is - a disease; not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and highly curable, if good treatment is found early enough. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote "Aids and Its Metaphors", extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.
作者简介 Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.
