HLTB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chevrolet Hhr, Simile, Literary Theory
20 Sep 2016
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How do we learn to live with illness: frank"s being a good story (hhr 1) Four fundamental tensions (biomedical vs humanistic terminologies of illness) (dis)enchantment and storytelling: sappol and wall, my quest for health (hhr 4) Three types of illness narratives: quest, restitution, chaos. Reading for specific textual elements (pov, plot, imagery, setting, etc. ) as well as for subtlety, ambiguity, rich detail. To encounter, sensitively, words in their personal and social contexts and when several things are being said at once . Poetics: how a text"s many elements synthesize to produce certain effects on the reader. Rhetoric: the use of language to produce a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience. Language and figures of speech (esp. simile, metaphor) Metaphors of illness: war, battle, and military language: the medical home : from policy to poetry. Brody, clark, and hester"s humanities and the medical home (hhr 13)
