Communicating Pain: Exploring Suffering through Language, Literature and Creative Writing
Author:   Stephanie de Montalk
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138611054


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Stephanie de Montalk
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.556kg
ISBN:  

9781138611054


ISBN 10:   1138611050
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments 1. The shirt of Nessos: an essay on the experience of writing about pain 2. Going nursing: an autobiographical prelude 3. At the end of the mind, the body: a memoir, 2003-2004 4. But at the end of the body, the mind: a memoir, 2004-2009 5.The vendor of happiness: an interview with French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1802-1876) 6.The consolator: an introduction to English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) 7. Observatory: a narrative poem set in Harriet Martineau's sick-room 8. An imago: a contemplation of Polish poet and intellectual, Aleksander Wat (1900 – 1967) 9. How does it hurt? An epilogue 10. White train: a narrative poem Appendix of images Notes Bibliography Index

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Stephanie de Montalk worked as a nurse and documentary film maker before becoming a writer in 1996. She is the author of four collections of poems, a literary novel, a memoir-biography and the award-winning memoir-study of pain: How Does It Hurt?; adapted from her PhD thesis in Creative Writing. Since an accident in 2003, she has been constrained by pain.

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