On Being Ill

Author: Virginia Woolf et al

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Price : 40.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781874320777
Publisher : Menard Press, The
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Publication date : 01 January 2022
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Author : Virginia Woolf et al
Series : G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
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Edition : 2201
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 809.933561
Pages : 172
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The subtle complexities of Virginia Woolf's essay 'On Being Ill' will no doubt continue to be resonant for a new generation of readers today. Certainly for both Woolf and Plath, the politics of illness are never far away.

"Illness", Woolf writes. "makes us disinclined fpr the long campaigns that prose extracts".
Woolf asks herself in her essay if illness should not receive more attention in literature, taking its place alongside the recurring themes of "love, battle and jealousy". This book, On Being Ill, does exactly that.

Contributors: Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde, Dern Rees-Jones, Lieke Marsman, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, Mieke van Zonnerveld, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Nadia de Vries, Jameisha Prescod, Sinead Gleeson.

Translation: Sophie Collins

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On Being Ill is a valuable book for everybody who wants to connect with illness through art and literature, and look at it from a different perspective.

Contributions from contemporary writers are bookended by Virginia Woolf's essay, 'On being ill' and Audre Lorde's 'An Introduction to the Cancer Journals'.