Tag: Illness narratives
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The use of language in health and illness narratives
Mariella Scerri Victor Grech Malta Portrait of Virginia Woolf in 1902. By George Charles Beresford. Public Domain. Via Wikimedia. “While I was as busy as anyone on the sunny plain of life, I heard of you laid aside in the shadowy recess where our sunshine of hope and joy could never penetrate to you.”…
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Children treating children: Anne Shirley as clinician
Kathryne Dycus Madrid, Spain First edition cover of Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, published 1908. Cover art by George Fort Gibbs (1870—1942). Public Domain. Childhood classics provide a range of illness narratives, reminding readers of dangers now preventable and even treatable, but also of the universal imperatives of understanding and accommodating…
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Support players in the story of an illness – how to behave
Fergus Shanahan Ireland Those who support in silence and support by their presence. Kiran Sandhu, Feb 24, 2017 One of the poems written by Seamus Heaney after recovering from a stroke was inspired by the well-known biblical story in which a sick man is miraculously cured. However, the Nobel laureate was drawn neither to the…