Reading and writing cancer
Subtitle: how words heal
By: Susan Gubar
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393246988
Subjects: Therapeutic use; Creative writing; Cancer; Psychological aspects
Description: "Elaborating upon her “Living with Cancer” column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancers wrongs. To stimulate the writing process, she proposes specific exercises, prompts, and models. In discussions of the diary of Fanny Burney, the stories of Leo Tolstoy and Alice Munro, numerous memoirs, novels, paintings, photographs, and blogs, Gubar shows how readers can learn from art that deepens our comprehension of what it means to live or die with the disease,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-217).
Table of contents: title: Coming to Terms; title: Impatient Memoirs; title: Sublime Artistry; title: My Blog.