... on a larger constituency, one that always includes the patient. The author's first-person ovarian cancer narrative illustrates that not having the capacity to make metaphors for one's embodied experiences can affect the timing of diagnosis; the dearth of effective public metaphors for imagining some internal...

.... . Oxford : Blackwell , 1998 . 215 - 225 . Jordens Christopher F ., Little Miles Paul Kim Sayers Emma-Jane . “ Life Disruption and Generic Complexity: a Social Linguistic Analysis of Narratives of Cancer Illness .” Social Science and Medicine 53.9 ( 2001 ): 1227 - 1236...

... a ‘Go’?” Washington Post , February 16 . Whalen Jeanne . 2009 . “New Recruits: Enlisting Genes in the Campaign against Cancer.” Wall Street Journal , March 29 . The Two- Eyed Cyclops: Metaphor and Narrative in American Medical Research Policy GEORGE J. ANNAS, BOSTON...

... . Schott G. D. 2004 . “Communicating the Experience of Pain: The Role of Analogy.” Pain 108 : 209 – 12 . Shapiro Sharon Angus Lynne . 1997 . “Identity and Meaning in the Experience of Cancer: Three Narrative Themes.” Journal of Health Psychology 2 : 539 – 54...

... urging people to “ Fight Cancer ,” he claims that Larkin has arrived at a vile conclusion: “the young woman herself is a cancer that must be fought: defaced, defiled, done over” (178). To me, however, the poem is striking for the clash of contradictory emotions that animate it. First, here...

....” www.webmd.com/video/targeting-cancer-tumors (accessed July 10, 2011) . Amber Petra Graham, Incurable Journey, 2003, mixed media. Courtesy of the artist The Binocular Vision Project: An Introduction MICHAEL HANNE, UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Grand claims were made...

... Neurosis” . New England Journal of Medicine 293 : 1154 – 55 . Sompayrac Lauren . 2003 . How the Immune System Works . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell . Stacy Jackie . 1997 . Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer . London : Routledge . Stafford Barbara Maria . 1993...

... mediated by the narrative process. Of these, the most pervasive are the military metaphors of Western medicine (Fuks 2009). Thus, medical discourse, both lay and profes- sional, is replete with the language of war. Phrases such as “the war on cancer,” “magic bullets,” “silver bullets...

... unstable physicality (75). Garcia explains that de Angulo underwent hormone therapy in his battle with prostate cancer and subsequently witnessed his changing gender as a meta- morphosis that could validate the metonymic leap from text to body, the leap by which his poems about metamorphosis instantiated...

... cancer in the nar- rative present — yet he remains largely unrepentant for his failures with her. The confessional genre presupposes that the confessional speaker reveals his or her peccadilloes so as to seek atonement.1 Roth’s narrative is rich in such potentially self-­condemning revelations...

... of Cancer . 1996 . Available: http://www2.dom.de/acircle/tcancer.htm . Hyde Ralph . Panoramania! The Art and Entertainment of the ‘All-Embracing’ View . London : Barbican Art Gallery , 1988 . Johannsen Robert Walter . To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American...

... intensity” (Rourke 2011, 97). Rasps 296 GENRE from her mother’s throat sounded like “little aliens trying to claw up and out” (114). O’Rourke reacts to the early death of her mother from colorectal cancer at fifty- five with a sense that life, for all of us, is too short...

... of vision: a dying young man sees a “saucer on the wall” (42 – 43), a jazz musician wounded by cancer, John Coltrane, “sees angels” (59), “three ladies into all manner of wrongdoing” are in a moment of conversion struck by a “hard light, cold, sharp as a nail” (97). The light of Deepstep...

... campaigns included oppos- ing the use of the Internet for state surveillance. He died of cancer in the fall of 2015. THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO SMILE 169 dynamics: they set off a sense of unease” (Mankell 2017). Seeking to highlight these phenomena in a popular...

...,” and for some reason would rather be in the hospital than at home. We do, however, want to rule out cancer by doing a barium enema and a CT scan of her abdomen. If those tests are normal we want to discharge her to home. Upon entering the room I noticed a young woman...

... rotting. Like a cancer that talks” (chap. 10). As far as we can tell — given such an unreliable narrator, and all misogyny aside — Nakota really does seem to be as gross and nasty as Nicholas claims. And yet he remains desperately attached to her: “Nakota, I wanted her still, always, in the dreamy...

... of becoming and transformation. Morrison’s short story “Lovecraft in Heaven” (1994) makes explicit the stakes of this reversal. This story concerns the dying Lovecraft, who embodies his cancer as a misogynist fear of what Barbara Creed (1993) calls the “monstrous-­ feminine.”1 The story concludes...

...; and all the time to see The ball, the seams and the letters on the ball As it seems briefly at its highest point To stop and hover—keeping these in mind, The swing itself is easy; forgetting cancer, Or panic learning how to swim or walk, Forgetting what...

... of relentless disappointment and an absence of evidence that such otherness is even remotely on the horizon. How do we make the waiting room for the revolution habitable, despite recurring delays? In the writing project she was working on while battling breast cancer during the last years of her life, Eve...

... . Boyer Anne . 2019 . The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Brigham Ann . 2015 . American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility In Literature and Film . Charlottesville...