The Alien Within.
Cancer is a disease for which the English language reserves some of its most sinister epithets: cancer is said to ‘devour’, ‘ruin’, ‘ravage’ and ‘deform’, and relentlessly to consume flesh with insatiable rapacity. Conceived of as an unknowable and uncontrollable force from the outside, cancer is pa...
| Published in: | European Journal of English Studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 81 - 94 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2015
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