INTRODUCTION: Irony and Illness-Recognition and Refusal

Illness and Irony: On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-19

  Lambek, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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