Beyond Words: Illness and the Limits of Expression

by Kathlyn Conway

Kathlyn Conway opens primordial questions about the shattering events of illness through close readings of selected illness narratives, proposing that only writing of a daring kind can utter the knowledge of the self-telling body. Wielding her ferocious intellect and braving exposure to self and other, Conway makes original discoveries about writing and illness and, more stunningly, about writing and life. Not a book about illness, this is a book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082635324X
• ISBN13: 9780826353245
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"