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Visual metaphor and embodiment in graphic illness narratives /

Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) claims that humans use their own bodies as a source of creativity for metaphors. Elisabeth El Refaie explores how metaphors change according to our body's alteration through diseases like cancer. Using an analysis of visual metaphor in thirty-five graphic illnes...

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Main Authors: El Refaie, Elisabeth
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism
Narrative art > Themes, motives
Metaphor in literature
Diseases in literature
Sick in literature
Diseases in art
Sick in art
Graphic novels > History and criticism
Summary: Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) claims that humans use their own bodies as a source of creativity for metaphors. Elisabeth El Refaie explores how metaphors change according to our body's alteration through diseases like cancer. Using an analysis of visual metaphor in thirty-five graphic illness narratives, she re-examines embodiment in traditional Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and proposes the notion of ""dynamic embodiment.""
Carrier Form: vi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780190678173
0190678178
Index Number: PN6714
CLC: J218.2
I06
Call Number: I06/E489

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