Contagious Metaphor
Autor Dr Peta Mitchellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mar 2014
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472521620
ISBN-10: 1472521625
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472521625
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Caracteristici
Innovative
monograph
offering
a
study
of
the
metaphor
of
contagion
Notă biografică
Peta
Mitchell
is
Senior
Lecturer
in
the
School
of
English,
Media
Studies,
and
Art
History
at
the
University
of
Queensland,
Australia,
and
author
ofCartographic
Strategies
of
Postmodernity(Routledge,
2008).
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
\
Introduction:
Due
Preparations
\
1.
Contagious
metaphor
\
2.
Pestilence
and
poison
winds:
Literary
contagions
and
the
endurance
of
miasma
theory
\
3.
The
Frenchfin
de
siècleand
the
birth
of
social
contagion
theory
\
4.
The
contagion
of
example
\
5.
Infectious
ideas:
Richard
Dawkins,
meme
theory,
and
the
politics
of
metaphor
\
6.
Networks
of
contagion
\
Bibliography
\
Index
Recenzii
This
book
is
a
treasure-trove
for
references
to
'social
contagion'
metaphors
past
and
present
and
has
interesting
historical
commentaries.
Peta Mitchell's highly readable ContagiousMetaphor explores medical and popular beliefs and practices aboutcontagion-and the metaphors that shape them. Reaching back through thenineteenth century and then ranging widely through more recent decades, sheshows how ambivalence about figurative language and misunderstanding ofmetaphor itself has shaped our responses to epidemics both imaginedand experienced. From miasma to Dionysian frenzy to memes on theinternet, Mitchell challenges our assumptions about both language andcontagion, providing engaging and provocative analyses of examples from film,philosophy, linguistics and literature.
'The history of medicine and metaphor come together inContagious Metaphor; Peta Mitchell perceptively chronicles the circulation ofthe metaphor of contagion and the contagion of metaphor in the current momentto show how ideas travel through language to shape lived experience. ContagiousMetaphor anatomizes the transmission of thought itself as it brings together astudy of the social phenomenon of a veritable obsession with the concept ofcontagion and a profound understanding of the role of language in creating notjust individual, but a broadly cultural consciousness. This study will enrichcontemporary understanding of the longstanding appeal of contagion as a conceptand of the power of metaphor as they circulate through, and register awidespread attempt to make sense of, the networks of contemporary social life.'
Thisis a captivating book: interdisciplinary scholarship at its best. Moving deftlybetween meme theory and modern literature, nineteenth-century French socialscience and fifth-century theological debates, Peta Mitchell's genealogy ofcontagion metaphor reveals the intimacy, and indeed interdependency, of thesetwo concepts. The subtlety, sophistication and scholarly rigour of ContagiousMetaphor all but guarantee the spread of its ideas.
Peta Mitchell's highly readable ContagiousMetaphor explores medical and popular beliefs and practices aboutcontagion-and the metaphors that shape them. Reaching back through thenineteenth century and then ranging widely through more recent decades, sheshows how ambivalence about figurative language and misunderstanding ofmetaphor itself has shaped our responses to epidemics both imaginedand experienced. From miasma to Dionysian frenzy to memes on theinternet, Mitchell challenges our assumptions about both language andcontagion, providing engaging and provocative analyses of examples from film,philosophy, linguistics and literature.
'The history of medicine and metaphor come together inContagious Metaphor; Peta Mitchell perceptively chronicles the circulation ofthe metaphor of contagion and the contagion of metaphor in the current momentto show how ideas travel through language to shape lived experience. ContagiousMetaphor anatomizes the transmission of thought itself as it brings together astudy of the social phenomenon of a veritable obsession with the concept ofcontagion and a profound understanding of the role of language in creating notjust individual, but a broadly cultural consciousness. This study will enrichcontemporary understanding of the longstanding appeal of contagion as a conceptand of the power of metaphor as they circulate through, and register awidespread attempt to make sense of, the networks of contemporary social life.'
Thisis a captivating book: interdisciplinary scholarship at its best. Moving deftlybetween meme theory and modern literature, nineteenth-century French socialscience and fifth-century theological debates, Peta Mitchell's genealogy ofcontagion metaphor reveals the intimacy, and indeed interdependency, of thesetwo concepts. The subtlety, sophistication and scholarly rigour of ContagiousMetaphor all but guarantee the spread of its ideas.