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Mon­ster Metaphors: When Rhetoric Runs Amok
This book explores ways in which com­mon metaphors can play a detri­men­tal role in every­day life; how they can grow in out­sized impor­tance to dom­i­nate their respec­tive ter­rains and push out alter­na­tive per­spec­tives; and how forms of resis­tance might act to con­tain their dom­i­nance.
The vol­ume begins by unpack­ing the dynam­ics of metaphors, their pow­er and influ­ence and the ways in which they are bol­stered by oth­er rhetor­i­cal devices. Adams draws on four case stud­ies to illus­trate their destruc­tive impact when they eclipse oth­er points of view—the metaphor of men­tal ill­ness; the metaphor of free-flow­ing mar­kets; the metaphor of the mind as a mir­ror and the metaphor of men as nat­u­ral­ly supe­ri­or. Tak­en togeth­er, these exam­ples prompt fur­ther reflec­tion on the ben­e­fi­cia­ries of these „mon­ster metaphors“ and how they pro­mote such metaphors to serve their own inter­ests but also on ways for­ward for chal­leng­ing their dom­i­nance, strate­gies for pre­vent­ing their rise and ways of cre­at­ing space for alter­na­tives.
This book will be of inter­est to schol­ars inter­est­ed in the study of metaphor, across such fields as lin­guis­tics, rhetoric and media stud­ies.
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Imag­in­ing gen­der in bio­graph­i­cal fic­tion
This vol­ume address­es the cur­rent boom in bio­graph­i­cal fic­tions across the globe, exam­in­ing the ways in which gen­dered lives of the past become re-imag­ined as gen­dered nar­ra­tives in fic­tion. Build­ing on this research, this book is the first to address ques­tions of gen­der in a sus­tained and sys­tem­at­ic man­ner that is also sen­si­tive to cul­tur­al and his­tor­i­cal dif­fer­ences in both raw mate­r­i­al and fic­tion­al rework­ing. It devel­ops a crit­i­cal lens through which to approach biofic­tions as ‘fic­tions of gen­der’, draw­ing on the­o­ries of biofic­tion and his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, life-writ­ing stud­ies, fem­i­nist crit­i­cism, queer fem­i­nist read­ings, post­colo­nial stud­ies, fem­i­nist art his­to­ry, and trans stud­ies. Atten­tive to var­i­ous approach­es to fic­tion­al­i­sa­tion that reclaim, appro­pri­ate or re-invent their ‘raw mate­r­i­al’, the vol­ume assess­es the crit­i­cal, revi­sion­ist and decon­struc­tive poten­tial of bio­graph­i­cal fic­tions while acknowl­edg­ing the effects of cliché, gen­der norms and estab­lished nar­ra­tives in many­of the texts under inves­ti­ga­tion.
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