HLTB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Assonance, Simile, Susan Sontag
22 Oct 2016
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For frank, making illness interesting means changing the relationship to illness from an disenchanted view to one that is more of a story. Weber= enchantment, suggesting that modern times, reduction of ti(cid:373)e, (cid:396)e(cid:448)elatio(cid:374) of life . productive disenchantment= knowledge accumulation (we know we are not cursed with illness). As we understand the mechanics there is a loss of things that cannot be quantified. Make illness enriching, worth living with-> because it is inevitable. Mike(cid:859)s sto(cid:396)y (cid:894)quest fo(cid:396) health- ch 4)- sexual reproduction of illness. Lecture today: the poetics of health- figures of speech (microlevel) Potetics: how a texts many elements synthesize to produce certain effets. Essay is the form of a memoir of her disability. Starts with an anecdote like frank= critical understanding for a medical professional with a disability (cid:862) tandout(cid:863) unintentional irony, launches critical reflection. Literal: words in their non-figurative sense, literal rendering.
