Illness as Metaphor

Name: Illness as Metaphor
Author: Susan Sontag

by Susan Sontag

Essays analyzing illness as metaphor in language and cultural representation

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Susan Sontag

American essayist and cultural critic who was the leading American intellectual of the second half of the 20th century. Against Interpretation argued for an erotics of art over interpretation; On Photography redefined how we think about photographic images; Illness as Metaphor demystified the rhetoric of disease. She was also a novelist and filmmaker.

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