The Curious Incident of the Metaphor in the Book
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
January 31, 2005
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A few weeks ago I wrote about Susan Sontag’s essay “Illness as Metaphor”. Sontag’s concept was to analyze society’s response to a disease the same way a literary critic might analyze society’s response to a text. In the 80’s, she wrote of AIDS as the tragically metaphorical illness of that … Read the rest