A Return to Senses: The Healthy Self in Nadine Gordimer’s Writings
The paper analyses some aspects of healthy and diseased bodies presented in Nadine Gordimer’s latest writings that mark the writer’s return to senses. Some of Susan Sontag’s considerations on‘illness and its metaphors’ are introduced in order to accentuate the significance of the healing proces in t...
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| description | The paper analyses some aspects of healthy and diseased bodies presented in Nadine Gordimer’s latest writings that mark the writer’s return to senses. Some of Susan Sontag’s considerations on‘illness and its metaphors’ are introduced in order to accentuate the significance of the healing proces in the circle of health, disease and recovery. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1d27fc29919f498f8a9c65eac9fb01272022-12-22T02:50:18ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies2286-04282012-12-019118219310.2478/v10319-012-0019-6A Return to Senses: The Healthy Self in Nadine Gordimer’s WritingsCaraivan Luiza Maria0“Dimitrie Cantemir” University, TimişoaraThe paper analyses some aspects of healthy and diseased bodies presented in Nadine Gordimer’s latest writings that mark the writer’s return to senses. Some of Susan Sontag’s considerations on‘illness and its metaphors’ are introduced in order to accentuate the significance of the healing proces in the circle of health, disease and recovery.https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0019-6diseased othergordimerhealthy selfsenses |
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| title | A Return to Senses: The Healthy Self in Nadine Gordimer’s Writings |
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| title_short | A Return to Senses: The Healthy Self in Nadine Gordimer’s Writings |
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