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    Illness and its Metaphors: Conceptualizing Cancer in Une mort très douce


    Rodgers, Julie (2011) Illness and its Metaphors: Conceptualizing Cancer in Une mort très douce. Irish Journal of French Studies, 11. pp. 47-62. ISSN 1649-1335

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    Abstract

    But in our own flesh, though we bear diseases […] Though we are eaten up of lice and worms, And though continually we bear about us A rotten and dead body, we delight To hide it in rich tissue: all our fear, Nay, all our terror, is lest our physician Should put us in the ground.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: illness; metaphors; conceptualizing; cancer; Une mort très douce;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > French
    Item ID: 13043
    Depositing User: Julie Rodgers
    Date Deposited: 10 Jun 2020 16:37
    Journal or Publication Title: Irish Journal of French Studies
    Publisher: Association des etudes Francaises et Francophones d'Irlande
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/13043
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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