Communicating Pain

Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain.

Autorentext

Stephanie de Montalk worked as a nurse and documentary film maker before becoming a writer in 1996. She is the author of four collections of poems, a literary novel, a memoir-biography and the award-winning memoir-study of pain: How Does It Hurt?; adapted from her PhD thesis in Creative Writing. Since an accident in 2003, she has been constrained by pain.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

1. The shirt of Nessos: an essay on the experience of writing about pain

2. Going nursing: an autobiographical prelude

3. At the end of the mind, the body: a memoir, 2003-2004

4. But at the end of the body, the mind: a memoir, 2004-2009

5.The vendor of happiness: an interview with French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1802-1876)

6.The consolator: an introduction to English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)

7. Observatory: a narrative poem set in Harriet Martineau's sick-room

8. An imago: a contemplation of Polish poet and intellectual, Aleksander Wat (1900 - 1967)

9. How does it hurt? An epilogue

10. White train: a narrative poem

Appendix of images

Notes

Bibliography

Index