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Book Synopsis Travel As Metaphor by : Georges Van Den Abbeele
Download or read book Travel As Metaphor written by Georges Van Den Abbeele and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contient un chapitre sur la notion de voyage chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Download or read book Print Travels written by Darlene Farabee and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print Travels explores how metaphorical and actual descriptions of travel depict and shape early modern thinking and writing about movement. Changes in navigational methods, increases in circulation of travel literature, and advances in means of travel alter how early modern writers present movement. By integrating theories of metaphor with critical approaches to early modern literature, I argue that early modern systems of describing motion change the role of metaphor in the period. The first two chapters examine depictions of actual travel and changes in measurement associated with travel. Chapter one reads practical manuals of navigation and instructions for travelers and argues that the material descriptions of movement found in these texts have a decisive impact on the ways available to describe movement. Chapter two approaches Hakluyt's Principall Navigations as a singular but multi-voiced text. This chapter shows how disparities between the individual's perceptions of movement and larger-scale concerns of travel over greater distances opens the space for metaphoric descriptions to exist and change. The next three chapters examine metaphors and depictions of travel in more canonical texts. Chapter three reads the allegorical travel of Spenser's The Faerie Queene to examine how the characters describe their own movements and to explore the difficulties of translating navigational and mapping methods to a fictional world. Chapter four uses Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana and Donne's Azores poems to examine how these forms overlay meaning and movement on one another. This comparison allows an exploration of representation of movement and stasis. The final chapter explores questions of movement and stasis in staged depictions of travel in Thomas Heywood's plays. By examining Heywood's plays across the era, I argue that we can map changes in the ways that travel is represented on the stage. I argue that later Heywood plays report travel rather than represent travel on the stage, showing a change in the way that travel can function metaphorically. Print Travels traces changes in the metaphoric descriptions of travel and provides a new way of reading travel metaphors in early modern texts.
Book Synopsis Metaphors of Travel and Writing by : Elina Theodorou Staikou
Download or read book Metaphors of Travel and Writing written by Elina Theodorou Staikou and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pattern and the Significance of the Travel Metaphor in Walden by : Geraldine Payne
Download or read book The Pattern and the Significance of the Travel Metaphor in Walden written by Geraldine Payne and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vehicles written by David Lipset and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures. Analyses include canoes in Papua New Guinea, pedestrians and airplanes in North America, lowriders among Mexican-Americans, and cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe, as well as among African-Americans in the South. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics and history.
Book Synopsis Travel and the Writer by : Kathryn Louise Glass
Download or read book Travel and the Writer written by Kathryn Louise Glass and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A User Experience Design of Travel Planning by Using Metaphor by : Ka Yin Ho
Download or read book A User Experience Design of Travel Planning by Using Metaphor written by Ka Yin Ho and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resident Alien written by Janet Wolff and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book of critical writings, Janet Wolff examines issues of exile, memoir, and movement from the perspective of the female stranger. Wolff, born in Great Britain but now living and working in the United States, discusses the positive consequences of women's travel; the use of dance (another form of mobility) as an image of liberation; whether exile or distance provides a better vantage point for cultural criticism than centrality and stability; the place of personal memoir in academic writing; and much more.
Book Synopsis Illness as Metaphor by : Susan Sontag
Download or read book Illness as Metaphor written by Susan Sontag and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this penetrating analysis of the social attitudes toward various major illnesses - chiefly tuberculosis, the scourge of the 19th century, and cancer, the terror of our own - Susan Sontag demonstrates that "illness is not a metaphor" and shows why "the healthiest way of being ill is one purified of metaphoric thinking." Once tuberculosis was identified as a bacterial infection, it ceased to be a symbol of a romantic fading away or of a sensitive or artistic temperament, and it could be treated and cured. Similarly, we must today cease to think of cancer as a mark of doom, a punishment or a sign of a repressed personality, and recognize it for what it is: one disease among many and often receptive to treatment." -- from back cover.
Book Synopsis The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World by : Graham Dann
Download or read book The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World written by Graham Dann and published by CABI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of papers from the prestigious Research Committee on International Tourism presented at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. While much of the present understanding of the tourist and tourism is grounded in metaphor (e.g. tourism as a sacred journey, tourism as play, the tourist as a child, etc.) such analogies need to be linked to transformations in tourism generating and receiving societies. Hence the focus on the tourist and everyday life, socio-psychological dimensions of the tourist experience, the tourist and conflicting expectations, and the tourist in a changing world.
Book Synopsis Travel as Metaphor by : Marcia B. Dinneen
Download or read book Travel as Metaphor written by Marcia B. Dinneen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contagious Metaphor by : Peta Mitchell
Download or read book Contagious Metaphor written by Peta Mitchell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Around the World on a Metaphor by : J. R. Fisher
Download or read book Around the World on a Metaphor written by J. R. Fisher and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Around the World on a Metaphor are inspired by travel and by coming home. Three parts of this collection are from previous chapbooks, locally produced and distributed. Most of the poems have not been seen outside the State of Washington. They represent twenty years of writing and teaching and traveling, sometimes all three together done together. Part I is based on teaching in China for three months in 2002 as the exchange professor from Peninsula College in Port Angeles, Washington. Part II is from a vacation in 2008 that included Amsterdam, Cairo and two cruises on the Nile. The poems in Part III were inspired in 1999 by one of my colleagues, Alice Derry, specifically her book of poetry about her relatives in East Germany, Strangers to Their Courage, whose influence then resulted in a trip to Germany, land of my ancestors. Part IV is all new poems, based on my recent diagnosis with cancer. Had it not been for the immediacy of my current situation, this book might never have come into existence. The overriding metaphor here is that life is a journey from East to West, from Sunrise to Sunset. Given the nature of Part IV, it is a work in progress and will remain that way up to the very end, but this book calls out to be published, so it does end on a final note that was written very early in the process. See you on the other side ...
Download or read book Narrative Inquiry written by Vera Caine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing key ideas of narrative inquiry, this is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology. The authors open up ways of thinking about people's experiences and their lives, which are situated and shaped by cultural, social, familial, institutional, and linguistic narratives. The authors draw on a range of theorists, creative nonfiction writers, poets, and essayists. The book is arranged into five parts covering a range of topics including: embodiment, memory, knowledge, wonder, imagination, community, responsibility, and place. Each section ends with a methodological discussion of their work involving refugee families with young children from Syria.
Download or read book Travel Writings written by Matsuo Basho and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The travel writings of Matsuo Bashō are of enormous literary importance, and so it is a joy to see them collected in this compact volume, in translations of exemplary elegance, faithfulness, and accessibility. The annotations are especially valuable: they show a solid grasp of the author’s life, work, and times, and provide rich and detailed background information about allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics. Along with the high quality of the translations themselves, this thorough commentary makes the book a significant scholarly resource and will help readers appreciate the density and delicacy of Bashō’s writing. A very welcome addition to the English-language literature on one of the central poets of the Japanese tradition." —David B. Lurie, Columbia University
Book Synopsis The Hidden Brain by : Shankar Vedantam
Download or read book The Hidden Brain written by Shankar Vedantam and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but we’re never aware of it. The hidden brain decides whom we fall in love with and whom we hate. It tells us to vote for the white candidate and convict the dark-skinned defendant, to hire the thin woman but pay her less than the man doing the same job. It can direct us to safety when disaster strikes and move us to extraordinary acts of altruism. But it can also be manipulated to turn an ordinary person into a suicide terrorist or a group of bystanders into a mob. In a series of compulsively readable narratives, Shankar Vedantam journeys through the latest discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral science to uncover the darkest corner of our minds and its decisive impact on the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Filled with fascinating characters, dramatic storytelling, and cutting-edge science, this is an engrossing exploration of the secrets our brains keep from us—and how they are revealed.
Book Synopsis Metaphors of Travel in the Language of Hymns, 1650-1800 by : Joel A. Shaver
Download or read book Metaphors of Travel in the Language of Hymns, 1650-1800 written by Joel A. Shaver and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation concentrates on the role of the conceptual metaphor LIFE IS A JOURNEY in English hymns of the 17th and 18th centuries, addressing the following research questions: 1) To what extent and in which contexts have elements of the lexical category of travel, applied metaphorically, been used in English spiritual language and literature in the period 1650?1800? 2) How has metaphorical extension affected the semantic development of this category? This dissertation discusses the use of travel metaphors as structural schemata for complete hymns, and analyzes the use of individual elements of travel-related terminology across a historical textual corpus. The analyses in this dissertation are undertaken in light of recent trends in semantics, and with the aim of contributing to the development of Cognitive Metaphor Theory as a tool for historical linguistic analysis and literary criticism.
