Contagious Metaphor
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Contagious Metaphor
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Author : Peta Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-03-14
Contagious Metaphor written by Peta Mitchell and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The metaphor of contagion pervades critical discourse across the humanities, the medical sciences, and the social sciences. It appears in such terms as 'social contagion' in psychology, 'financial contagion' in economics, 'viral marketing' in business, and even 'cultural contagion' in anthropology. In the twenty-first century, contagion, or 'thought contagion' has become a byword for creativity and a fundamental process by which knowledge and ideas are communicated and taken up, and resonates with André Siegfried's observation that 'there is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas'. In Contagious Metaphor, Peta Mitchell offers an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the metaphor of contagion and its relationship to the workings of language. Examining both metaphors of contagion and metaphor as contagion, Contagious Metaphor suggests a framework through which the emergence and often epidemic-like reproduction of metaphor can be better understood.
Contagion And The National Body
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Author : Gerald O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-09
Contagion And The National Body written by Gerald O'Brien and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-09 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on the work of George Lakoff, this book provides a detailed analysis of the organism metaphor, which draws an analogy between the national or social body and a physical body. With attention to the manner in which this metaphor conceives of various sub-groups as either beneficial or detrimental to the (social) body’s overall functioning, the author examines the use of this metaphor to view marginalized sub-populations as invasive or contagious entities that need to be treated in the same way as harmful bacteria or pathogens. Analyzing the organism metaphor as it was employed in the service of social injustice through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States, Contagion and the National Body focuses on the alarm eras of the restrictive immigration period (1890–1924), the agitation against Chinese and Japanese populations on the West Coast, the eugenic period’s targeting of feeble-minded persons and other "defectives," periods of anti-Semitism, the anti-Communist movements, and various forms of racial animosity against African-Americans.
Contagion And The National Body
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Author : Gerald O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Contagion And The National Body written by Gerald O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Contagion (Social psychology) categories.
8 Metaphorical Public Health Responses -- Registration and Surveillance -- Segregation, Ghettoization, and Quarantine -- "Second-Level" Penetration (Self-Isolation) -- Elimination -- Reification of the Organism Metaphor -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Infectious Rhythm
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Author : Barbara Browning
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Infectious Rhythm written by Barbara Browning and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Art categories.
Barbara Browning follows the trail of "infectious rhythm" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the diasporic spread of African culture, and serves as the justification for its brutal repression. The essays in this book examine both the vital and violent ways in which recent associations have been made between the AIDS pandemic and African diasporic cultural practices, including religious worship, music, dance, sculpture, painting, orature, literature and film. While pointing to the lengthy and complex history of the metaphor of African contagion, Browning argues that in its politicized, life-affirming embodiment, the figure might actually teach us to respond to epidemia humanely.
Medicine And Colonial Engagements In India And Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Poonam Bala
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-11
Medicine And Colonial Engagements In India And Sub Saharan Africa written by Poonam Bala and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with History categories.
This volume examines the various modalities of imperial engagements with the colonized peoples in the former British colonies of India and in sub-Saharan Africa. Articulated through race, gender and medicine, these modalities also became colonial sites of desire addressing colonial anxieties ensuing from concerted engagements. Focussing on colonial India, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, this volume brings together essays from eminent scholars to examine the dynamics of colonial engagements and their implications in understanding their role in the dominant discourses of the empire. Given its transnational perspective in addressing colonial India and Sub-Saharan Africa, the book will appeal to historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, and to scholars and students in colonial studies, cultural studies, history of medicine and world history.
Reading Contagion
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Author : Annika Mann
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2018-11-27
Reading Contagion written by Annika Mann and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next. Physicians and medical writers warned of noxious matter circulating through air, bodily fluids, paper, and other materials, while philosophers worried that agitating passions could spread via certain kinds of writing and expression. Eighteenth-century poets and novelists thus had to grapple with the disturbing idea that literary texts might be doubly infectious, communicating dangerous passions and matter both in and on their contaminated pages. In Reading Contagion, Annika Mann argues that the fear of infected books energized aesthetic and political debates about the power of reading, which could alter individual and social bodies by connecting people of all sorts in dangerous ways through print. Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, Tobias Smollett, William Blake, and Mary Shelley ruminate on the potential of textual objects to absorb and transmit contagions with a combination of excitement and dread. This book vividly documents this cultural anxiety while explaining how writers at once reveled in the possibility that reading could transform the world while fearing its ability to infect and destroy.
Cultures Of Contagion
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Author : Beatrice Delaurenti
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-10-19
Cultures Of Contagion written by Beatrice Delaurenti and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-19 with Social Science categories.
Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Cultures of Contagion recounts episodes in the history of contagions, from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It considers contagion not only in the medical sense but also as a process, a metaphor, and an interpretive model--as a term that describes not only the transmission of a virus but also the propagation of a phenomenon. The authors describe a wide range of social, cultural, political, and anthropological instances through the prism of contagion--from anti-Semitism to migration, from the nuclear contamination of the planet to the violence of Mao's Red Guard. The book proceeds glossary style, with a series of short texts arranged alphabetically, beginning with an entry on aluminum and "environmental contagion" and ending with a discussion of writing and "textual resemblance" caused by influence, imitation, borrowing, and plagiarism. The authors--leading scholars associated with the Center for Historical Research (CRH, Centre de recherches historiques), Paris--consider such topics as the connection between contagion and suggestion, "waltzmania" in post-Terror Paris, the effect of reading on sensitive imaginations, and the contagiousness of yawning. They take two distinct approaches: either examining contagion and what it signified contemporaneously, or deploying contagion as an interpretive tool. Both perspectives illuminate unexpected connections, unnoticed configurations, and invisible interactions.
Endemic
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Author : Kari Nixon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-01
Endemic written by Kari Nixon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with Social Science categories.
This book develops a new multimodal theoretical model of contagion for interdisciplinary scholars, featuring contributions from influential scholars spanning the fields of medical humanities, philosophy, political science, media studies, technoculture, literature, and bioethics. Exploring the nexus of contagion's metaphorical and material aspects, this volume contends that contagiousness in its digital, metaphorical, and biological forms is a pervasively endemic condition in our contemporary moment. The chapters explore both endemicity itself and how epidemic discourse has become endemic to processes of social construction. Designed to simultaneously prime those new to the discourse of humanistic perspectives of contagion, complicate issues of interest to seasoned scholars of science and technology studies, and add new topics for debate and inquiry in the field of bioethics, Endemic will be of wide interest for researchers and educators.
Epidemics Examined And Explained Or Living Germs Proved By Analogy To Be A Source Of Disease
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Author : John Grove
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-17
Epidemics Examined And Explained Or Living Germs Proved By Analogy To Be A Source Of Disease written by John Grove and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-17 with Fiction categories.
The book "Epidemics Examined and Explained" studies germs as a source of infections. It was created as a basis for further research, as stated by the author, but it presents a comprehensive guide on the causes of epidemics as well. The publication explains disease outbreaks such as typhus, cholera, bubonic plague, typhoid fever, dysentery, smallpox, scorbutus (scurvy), or malaria in different countries and lets readers drive conclusions on how to avoid them.
Contagious
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Author : Priscilla Wald
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-09
Contagious written by Priscilla Wald and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
DIVShows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation./div