Six chapters, divided into four paths, over a time span that from the 19th Century reaches the year 2000, have made it possible to give voice to canonical authors and outsiders, to prose writers and poets who investigate and confront on one of the most dramatical themes of the contemporary consciousness, that of oncological disease. A sort of oncography syllabary characterized by an extraordinary mixture of medical terminology and commonplaces, colloquial expressions and courtly loans from classical languages, foreign idioms, dialects and periphrastic language originated from 'oncologhems' used instead of the word 'cancer', as well as from synaesthesias, tropes, processes, remembrances, olfactory and visual perceptions and the inflation of interrupted works.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1169-7048
Book Title
Metastasi cartacee
Book Subtitle
Intrecci tra neoplasia e letteratura
Authors
Oleksandra Rekut-Liberatore
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
366
Publication Year
2017
Copyright Information
© 2017 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-592-0
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-591-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-592-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-161-5
Series Title
Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»
Series ISSN
2705-0289
Series E-ISSN
2705-0297