LITERATI’S HEALTH AND ILLNESS AS METAPHORS OF THE REFLECTIONS TO THE MODERNITY IN THE 19TH-CENTURY HUNGARIAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY by Béla Mester

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“Civil War inside my Body”. Two Narratives of Dying in Contemporary Anglophone Film” by Marta Fernández Morales

“…This article analyzes two examples of female narratives of dying in the light of the theories of illness and death specialists like David Morris, Ira Byock or Susan Sontag, with her classic Illness as Metaphor. Wit offers an ironic and profound insight on the dying process of Vivian Bearing, a professor of metaphysical poetry. …”
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“We are at war”: The military rhetoric of COVID-19 in cross-cultural perspective of discourses by Paola Giorgis, Olena Semenets, Bilyana Todorova

“…To analyze how, all throughout 2020 and 2021, the military rhetoric was implemented and disseminated as the dominant discourse, we draw on Media Representations of the Real, on Rhetoric Studies on Manipulation, on Political Discourse, on Critical Discourse Studies, and on Susan Sontag's fundamental essay Illness as Metaphor. We discuss such rhetorical strategies as they originated from a discussion within our collective project in other words, an online dictionary that, besides critically analyzing contextualized keywords that (re)produce different forms of Otherness, offers creative proposals to reverse such narratives, and can be used as a free resource in different social and educational contexts (www.iowdictionary.org).…”
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Expressing negative emotions as a key to living with and coping with dementia by Giulia Frezza, Jolanda Veldhuis, Christian Burgers

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