Title
Contagion as Metaphor
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Outlines the pitfalls of interpreting illness through metaphor, drawing on Harry’s gangrene in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” In her exploration of disease as metaphor and metaphor itself as disease, Davis contends that the illness has infected both Harry’s body and writing, leaving him full of rot at the end.
Published in
American Literary History
Volume
14
Issue
4
Date
Winter 2002
Pages
828-836
COinS
Citation
Davis, Cynthia J. “Contagion as Metaphor.” American Literary History 14, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 828-36.