Communicating pain : exploring suffering through language, literature and creative writing /
De Montalk, Stephanie, 1945-
Communicating pain : exploring suffering through language, literature and creative writing / Stephanie de Montalk. - 1 online resource. - Routledge advances in the medical humanities .
Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, Communicating Pain is a personal response to the avoidance, dismissal and isolation experienced by the author after developing intractable pelvic pain in 2003. The volume focuses on pain's infamous resistance to verbal expression, the sense of exile experienced by sufferers and the under-recognised distinction between acute and chronic pain. In doing so, it creates a platform upon which scholarly, imaginative and emotional quotients round out pain as the sum of physical actualities, mental challenges and psychosocial interactions. Additionally, this work creates a dialogue between medicine and literature. Considering the works of writers such as Harriet Martineau, Alphonse Daudet and Aleksander Wat, it enables a multi-genre narrative heightened by poetry, fictional storytelling and life-writing. Coupled with academic rigour, this insightful monograph constitutes a persuasive and unique exploration of pain and the communication of suffering. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Medical Humanities, Autobiography Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness.
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Psycholinguistics--Data processing.
Pain--Data processing.
Lexicology--Data processing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
POETRY / General
P37.5.D37
410.19
Communicating pain : exploring suffering through language, literature and creative writing / Stephanie de Montalk. - 1 online resource. - Routledge advances in the medical humanities .
Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, Communicating Pain is a personal response to the avoidance, dismissal and isolation experienced by the author after developing intractable pelvic pain in 2003. The volume focuses on pain's infamous resistance to verbal expression, the sense of exile experienced by sufferers and the under-recognised distinction between acute and chronic pain. In doing so, it creates a platform upon which scholarly, imaginative and emotional quotients round out pain as the sum of physical actualities, mental challenges and psychosocial interactions. Additionally, this work creates a dialogue between medicine and literature. Considering the works of writers such as Harriet Martineau, Alphonse Daudet and Aleksander Wat, it enables a multi-genre narrative heightened by poetry, fictional storytelling and life-writing. Coupled with academic rigour, this insightful monograph constitutes a persuasive and unique exploration of pain and the communication of suffering. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Medical Humanities, Autobiography Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness.
9780429465451 0429465459 9780429878688 0429878680 9780429878664 0429878664 9780429878671 0429878672
Psycholinguistics--Data processing.
Pain--Data processing.
Lexicology--Data processing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
POETRY / General
P37.5.D37
410.19