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Bavaeva, Ol'ga. Metaphorical parallels of the neutral nomination "man" in modern English. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1858259.

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The monograph is devoted to a multidimensional analysis of metaphor in modern English as a parallel nomination that exists along with a neutral equivalent denoting a person. The problem of determining the essence of metaphorical names and their role in the language has attracted the attention of many foreign and domestic linguists on the material of various languages, but until now the fact of the parallel existence of metaphors and neutral nominations has not been emphasized. The research is in line with modern problems of linguistics related to the relationship of language, thinking an

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Danesi, Marcel. Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666996890.

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Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that will furnish relevant insights on the origin or language? This book attempts to provide an answer by suggesting that the first riddles of humanity, along with the first myths, reveal that language may have emerged as a mode of reflection via metaphor—a mode that involves blending speech forms together to produce complex, abstract cognition.

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Montgomery, Erwin B. Oscillator Basics. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190259600.003.0016.

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This chapter uses metaphors to help programmers picture the basic concepts of oscillators. At the least, DBS can be considered as oscillatory stimulation of the nervous system and increasingly, it is likely that the nervous system operates on the bases of neuronal and neural oscillators. Thus, a fundamental understanding of oscillators, particularly their features, is important. The defining feature of oscillatory activity is the recurrence or repetition of a phenomenon, such as the repetitive flashing of a light at a railroad crossing. This chapter uses the metaphor of a racecar circling on a

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Davis, María. Creating Your Own Space. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666990249.

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The relationship between women and houses has always been complex. Many influential writers have used the space of the house to portray women's conflicts with the society of their time. On the one hand, houses can represent a place of physical, psychological and moral restrictions, and on the other, they often serve as a metaphor for economic freedom and social acceptance. This usage is particularly pronounced in works written in the nineteenth and twentieth century, when restrictions on women's roles were changing: "anxieties about space sometimes seem to dominate the literature of both ninet

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Bueno-Hansen, Pascha. Decolonial Feminism, Gender, and Transitional Justice in Latin America. Edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199300983.013.36.

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Using Peru as an example, this chapter explores gender-based violence in conflict and transitional justice processes through a lens of decolonial feminism. Beginning with an analysis of colonialism and gender, it provides conceptual and historical context on the complex social relations between race, class, and gender. The chapter then turns to an exploration of community perspectives on sexual violence during the Peruvian internal armed conflict (1980–2000), explained through the metaphor of el patrón. By linking colonial and modern experiences of violence, the chapter illustrates the histori

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Epstein, Ruth Lilian. Young children's comprehension of simple and complex metaphors presented in pictures and words. 1989.

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Williams, Tami. Negotiating Art and Industry in the Postwar Context. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038471.003.0003.

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This chapter studies several of Dulac's early narrative Impressionist films, and her ideal of cinema as a spatiotemporally complex universe of symbols—one in which meaning is created through an intertextual network of figurative associations, such as pictorial and rhythmic gesture. Dulac's integral approach, based on life, movement, and rhythm, exemplified in a surviving extract of what is considered the first Impressionist film, La Fête espagnole (1920), is used in a particularly innovative and feminist manner in one of her earliest extant films, La Belle Dame sans merci (1921). Dulac's use o

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Lowik, A. J. Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978738492.

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Reproductive healthcare is choreographically delivered—an intricate collection of seemingly disparate but deftly balanced elements all come together in a complex dance. It is choreographed in ways that presume that the person accessing it—the dancer-patient—will be, among other things, cisgender. As a result, trans people are altogether erased, systematically unanticipated, insufficiently accommodated, or understood only in relation to hegemonic, regulatory frameworks. Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare: Dancing Outside the Lines draws on data from a research study in

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Wickerson, Erica. History. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793274.003.0006.

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The distinction between lived time as it is subjectively experienced by individuals and wider events that affect communities, collectives, and nations is a complex and significant aspect of time as it is presented in narrative. This chapter considers the tension between the time of individual experience and the time of collectively marked events in Doctor Faustus, Felix Krull, Mario and the Magician, as well as Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, and Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel, Maus. The wide range of times and media afforded by these works allows an analysis of the ways in which references to hi

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Bruhn, Mark J. Intentionality and Constraint in Conceptual Blending. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190457747.003.0005.

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This chapter proposes a systems-theoretic adjustment to conceptual blending theory with respect to the so-called generic space. In creative conceptualization, the generic space is not an optional by-product of conceptual mappings across previously and otherwise constituted input spaces, but rather their effective cause, and not by selecting for them but by massively constraining against anything not them. As a first approximation of the blend’s targeted or intended meaning, the generic space functions as an indispensable “proto-blend” that sets the parameters and satisfaction conditions for th

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Kenyon, Gary M., and William L. Randall. Restorying Our Lives. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216984894.

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This is a new and important contribution to the explosion of contemporary interest in life as story and lifestories. Written in a lively and readable manner, the book explores theoretical, practical, ethical, and personal aspects of this fascinating topic area. It invites the reader, whether professional or general, to realize the potential to restory his or her own life and to coauthor others' lives in a positive way. This book is a refreshingly readable blend of practical insight and academic analysis concerning the familiar, but fascinating metaphor: the story of my life. It offers an engag

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Pagán Cánovas, Cristóbal, and Anna Piata. The Way Time Goes By. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190457747.003.0004.

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Conceptual metaphor theory has used TIME IS SPACE as the paradigmatic case of projection from a concrete to an abstract domain. More recently, within the framework of conceptual integration or blending theory, a more complex view of time–space mappings—and of mappings in general—has been proposed. Rather than a binary, unidirectional projection between the vast experiential domains of TIME and SPACE, the blending account proposes that meanings combining time and motion emerge from successive integrations within a network of relatively small conceptual packets, including event structure, motion

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Cho, Jeasik. A Typology of the Evaluation of Qualitative Research. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199330010.003.0002.

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This chapter explores five specific categories of the evaluation of qualitative research (EQR): (1) a general EQR category for a universal set of criteria for any type of qualitative research; (2) a “subtle realist” category that does not necessarily give up on positivist aims while drawing on the insights of constructivist conceptions of social research; (3) a post-criteriology category that views as an impossibility setting up predetermined criteria for qualitative research that uncovers complex meaning-making processes; (4) an art-based research category that consists of six criteria—incisi

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Nicholson, Daniel J. Reconceptualizing the Organism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0007.

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This chapter draws on insights from non-equilibrium thermodynamics to demonstrate the ontological inadequacy of the machine conception of the organism. The thermodynamic character of living systems underlies the importance of metabolism and calls for the adoption of a processual view, exemplified by the Heraclitean metaphor of the stream of life. This alternative conception is explored in its various historical formulations, and the extent to which it captures the nature of living systems is examined. Next, the chapter considers the metaphysical implications of reconceptualizing the organism f

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Núñez, Rafael, and Tyler Marghetis. Cognitive Linguistics and the Concept(s) of Number. Edited by Roi Cohen Kadosh and Ann Dowker. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642342.013.023.

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What is a ‘number,’ as studied within numerical cognition? The term is highly polysemous, and can refer to numerals, numerosity, and a diverse collection of mathematical objects, from natural numbers to infinitesimals. However, numerical cognition has focused primarily on prototypical counting numbers (PCNs) – numbers used regularly to count small collections of objects. Even these simple numbers are far more complex than apparent pre-conditions for numerical abilities like subitizing and approximate discrimination of large numerosity, which we share with other animals. We argue that the leap

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Werdel, Mary Beth. Paradox of Trauma and Growth in Pastoral and Spiritual Care. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978735040.

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The Paradox of Trauma and Growth in Pastoral and Spiritual Care: Night Blooming introduces and bridges the gap between the psychological and spiritual perspectives and responses in trauma work, illuminating the complexity of the human phenomenon of growth though suffering that is too easily misunderstood in the context of pastoral and spiritual care. Through the hopeful metaphor of night bloomers, rare plants that grow because of light, but bloom in the darkness, it is suggested that while psychological trauma is inherently negative, and suffering creates a spiritual inner night, moving throug

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Bonabeau, Eric, Marco Dorigo, and Guy Theraulaz. Swarm Intelligence. Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195131581.001.0001.

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Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents, this intelligence lies in the networks of interactions among individuals and between individuals and the environment. A fascinating subject, social insects are also a powerful metaphor for artificial intelligence, and the problems they solve--finding food, dividing labor among nestmates, building nests, responding to external challenges--have important counterparts in engineering and computer science. This book pro

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Goodman, Sam. The Retrospective Raj. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474448741.001.0001.

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The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire undertakes a detailed analysis of the use of medicine as a recurrent and defining trope of post-imperial fiction published between 1950 and 1990. The book argues that during this crucial period of recent history, when the influence and prestige of the British Empire was nearing its end, a range of contemporary novelists including J. G. Farrell, Paul Scott, John Masters, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Salman Rushdie identified and used medicine as a discursive paradigm through which to engage critically with the history, authorit

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Kushnir, Walter V. Frames of reference or metaphors in planned consensual action: a case study of a committee planning an innovation in a complex organization. 1993.

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Gollance, Sonia. It Could Lead to Dancing. Stanford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503613492.001.0001.

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Dances and balls appear throughout literature as a place for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships: as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo and Juliet can attest, dance scenes provide an opportunity for writers to criticize societal expectations about courtship and partner choice, while simultaneously entertaining their readers. In this book, Sonia Gollance examines Jewish mixed-gender dancing in German and Yiddish literature, arguing that dance provides a powerful lens for understanding Jewish acculturation, secularization, and modernization. Gollance exami

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Lustig, Jason. A Time to Gather. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197563526.001.0001.

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A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture examines Jewish archives in Germany, the United States, and Israel/Palestine and argues that historical records took on potent value in modern Jewish life as both sources of history and anchors of memory, precisely because archives presented one way of transmitting Jewish culture and history from one generation to another. Creating archives was one means for Jews to take control of their history, especially after the Holocaust, when efforts at archive restitution removed looted archives from the hands of perpetrators. Such efforts al

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Baumgartner, Michael. Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190497156.001.0001.

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Abstract This monograph explores the underresearched use of music in Jean-Luc Godard’s films and video essays from the early 1960s to the late 1990s. While Godard is largely hailed as a leading innovator of visual montage, unique storytelling style, and groundbreaking cinematography, his achievements as a leading pioneer in sculpting complex soundtracks altering the familiar relationship between sound and image have been mainly overlooked. On these soundtracks, music assumes the unique role of metafilm music. Metafilm music self-consciously refers to its own role as film music and disrupts the

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Field, Sue. Anatomical Drawing. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350285590.

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Intersecting art, science and the scenographicmise-en-scène, this book provides a new approach to anatomical drawing, viewed through the contemporary lens of scenographic theory.Sue Field traces the evolution of anatomical drawing from its historical background of hand-drawn observational scientific investigations to the contemporary, complex visualization tools that inform visual art practice, performance, film and screen-based installations. Presenting an overview of traditional approaches across centuries, the opening chapters explore the extraordinary work of scientists and artists such as

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Franks, Hallie M. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863166.003.0007.

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Drawing in particular from Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space and its production—according to which space is conceived as a network of relations between perceived, conceived, and lived experiences—the conclusion situates the arguments of the previous chapters in relationship to the function of the symposium as a social practice. The mosaics, by actively participating in the construction of spatial metaphors, played a crucial role in facilitating the intellectual transformation central to the symposium experience and in creating and solidifying social bonds among the participants. These conclusio

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Hiner, Susan. Behind the Seams. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350339835.

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In 19th-century France, fashion was a powerful and lucrative regime that depended on women’s expert manipulation of its raw materials. The delicate finger work of seamstresses and modistes yielded frothy dresses and ethereal hats; the subtle, persuasive rhetoric of written chronicles resulted in savvy, targeted marketing campaigns of goods and behaviors; and the stylized visual splendor of the detailed drawing, engraving, and painting of fashion plates fed an aspirational fantasy that ended in consumption. Yet this fashion system paradoxically effaced many of the women on whom it depended. Beh

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Burrow, Colin. Imitating Authors. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198838081.001.0001.

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Imitating Authors analyses the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans. At its centre lie the imitating authors of the English Renaissance, including Ben Jonson and the most imitated imitator of them all, John Milton. Imitating Authors argues that imitation is not simply a matter of borrowing words, or of alluding to an earlier author. Imitators learn practices from earlier writers. They imitate the structures and forms of earlier writing in ways that enable them to create a n

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Ferrari, G. R. F. The Messages We Send. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798422.001.0001.

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This is a book about ‘intimations’: social interactions that approach outright communication but do not quite reach it. The controlling metaphor is that of a communicative scale or switch, which goes from ‘off’ (no communication intended) to fully ‘on’ (outright communication). Intimations lie in between. Three intermediate positions are identified: quarter-on, half-on, and three-quarters-on. The metaphor is cashed by appeal to a Gricean model of communication: progression along the communicative scale is determined by the extent to which what comes across in the transmission is required to co

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Neveu, Erik. Bourdieu’s Capital(s). Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.15.

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This chapter explores three central questions. The first section describes the four core varieties of capitals: cultural, social, economic, and symbolic. It highlights some peculiarites of Bourdieu’s approach: the focus on symbolic capital, a definition of social capital different from those of North American. A second section questions the limits of economic metaphors. Bourdieu borrows from the lexicon of economics (capitals, conversion rates). But he devotes attention to the sociopolitical dimension of the struggles for defining the conversion rates between capitals and warns that “rational”

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Quick, Laura. Futility Curses in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810933.003.0005.

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The problem of a West Semitic tradition of curses is problematized in this chapter by examining the futility curses of the Hebrew Bible, showing that these examples conform tightly to examples in Old Aramaic from the Iron I and II periods. The most similar biblical examples stem from the pre-exilic prophets, while later texts of the exilic and post-exilic period deviate from the normal syntax and vocabulary, instead providing clauses suggestive of general menace and commination rather than threatening a specific future curse. The curses of Deuteronomy 28 also utilize the typical language and s

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Miller, Peggy J., and Grace E. Cho. A Chorus of Parental Voices. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199959723.003.0003.

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Chapter 3, “A Chorus of Parental Voices,” is the first of two chapters examining Centerville parents’ beliefs about childrearing and self-esteem, based on interviews with a diverse sample of parents from the Millennial study. Parents invoked a shared understanding of childrearing in which cultivating children’s self-esteem was a cherished goal, crucial to children’s healthy development. This understanding, espoused with strong conviction, was not confined to the highly educated or economically advantaged. This chapter delineates the contours of this social imaginary, quoting extensively from t

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Moyar, Dean. Absolute Knowledge and the Ethical Conclusion of the Phenomenology. Edited by Dean Moyar. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355228.013.9.

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Hegel wrote in The Science of Logic that the deduction of the concept of science was accomplished at the end of the Phenomenology of Spirit in ‘Absolute Knowledge.’ This chapter links the deduction claim to the metaphor of a ladder to science that Hegel discusses in the Phenomenology Preface, and to the sublation of the form of objectivity that is the focus of ‘Absolute Knowledge.’ It argues that this reconciliation of self-consciousness with objectivity coincides with the task of unifying the theoretical and practical domains. Once one appreciates that Hegel’s goal is such a unification, one

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van der Hulst, Harry. Aperture harmony. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813576.003.0006.

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This chapter analyzes a number of vowel harmony systems which have been described or analyzed in terms of aperture (lowering or raising, including complete harmony). This takes us into areas where the literature on vowel harmony discusses cases involving the following binary features: [± high], [± low], [± ATR], and [± RTR]. Raising has been thought of as problematic for unary ‘IUA’ systems as these systems lack a common element for high vowels. This chapter suggests that raising can be attributed to ATR-harmony. The chapter also discusses typological generalizations and analyzes metaphony in

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Larsen, Darl. Book about the Film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881823290.

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This reference identifies and explains the cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the filmMonty Python’s Meaning of Life, the Pythons’ third and final original feature as a complete group. In this resource, virtually every allusion and reference that appears in the film is identified and explained —from Britain’s waning Empire through the Winter of Discontent to Margaret Thatcher’s second-term mandate, from playing fields to battle fields, and from accountant pirates to sacred sperm. Organized chronologically by scene, the entries cover literary and metaphoric allusions, symbolisms, na

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Dhavan, Purnima, and Heidi Pauwels, eds. Vali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755650088.

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This book reexamines the emergence of Urdu as a literary and poetic language in the 18th century, at the time called Rekhtah,highlighting its engagement with diverse regional cultures and communities in South Asia. Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures reframes the history of Urdu within the diverse contexts from which it emerged. It places the earliest Urdu-Rekhtah poets and their craft in the lively social gatherings, bazaars, shrines, and courts of 18th century South Asia. Through aesthetic analysis and historical contextualization of poems, using primary sources in manuscripts, the authors reveal why

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Strawn, Brent A. Material Culture, Iconography, and the Prophets. Edited by Carolyn J. Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.013.6.

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This chapter probes one aspect of material culture—namely, ancient Near Eastern iconography—for its pertinence for the prophets. It focuses on lion imagery in the book of Amos and lion iconography in the ancient Near East, but especially in the archaeology of ancient Israel/Palestine. The artistic remains contribute to a better understanding of this motif in Amos, and the same holds true for the many other images and metaphors that may be found in both the biblical text and the archaeology. In certain cases, as with the lion in Amos, attention to the iconographic data can cast light not only o

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Colangelo, Jeremy, ed. Joyce Writing Disability. University Press of Florida, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813069135.001.0001.

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In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors approach the subject both on a figurative level, as a symbol or metaphor in Joyce’s work, and also as a physical reality for many of Joyce’s characters. Contributors examine the varying ways in which Joyce’s texts represent disability and the environmental conditions of his time that stigmatized, isolated, and othered individuals with disabilities. The collection demonstrates the centrality of the body and embodiment in Joyce’s writings, from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young

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Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe, and Gerrit DeGeest. Carrots vs. Sticks. Edited by Francesco Parisi. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199684267.013.41.

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This article draws a general picture of the differences between the metaphors of carrots and sticks. It discusses incentive effects (in principle, a $100 carrot creates the same incentives as a $100 stick, but there are exceptions); transaction costs (carrots are paid upon compliance, sticks upon violation, therefore sticks have lower transaction costs if the majority complies); risks (probabilistic carrots create risks for compliers, probabilistic sticks for violators); wealth and budget constraints (the maximum carrot depends on the principal's wealth, the maximum stick on the agent's wealth

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McCleery, Iona, Laurence Totelin, Iona McCleery, et al., eds. A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474206716.

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The Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500) are wellknown for the growth of universities and urban regulations, plague pandemics, increasingly sophisticated ways of causing injury in warfare, and abiding frameworks for health and illness provided by religion. Increasingly, however, archaeologists, historians and literary specialists have come together to flesh out the daily lives of medieval people at all levels of society, both in Christian Europe and the Islamic Mediterranean. A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages follows suit, but also brings new approaches and comparisons into the conversat

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Csabi, Szilvia, ed. Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190457747.001.0001.

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Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics presents multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research papers describing new developments in the field of cognitive poetics. The chapters examine the complex connections between cognition and poetics with special attention given to how people both create and interpret novel artistic works in a variety of expressive media, including literature, music, art, and multimodal artifacts. The authors have diverse disciplinary backgrounds, but all of them embrace theories and research findings from multiple perspectives, such as l

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Postal, Karen. Testimony That Sticks. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190467395.001.0001.

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How do we create access to complex, highly technical neuropsychological and psychological information for jurors in a way that is engaging, understandable, and (to quote Faulkner) sets the truth on fire? Testimony that Sticks shares the fruits of 4-years of in-depth interviews with over 70 seasoned forensic neuropsychologists and psychologists, as well as attorneys and judges, presenting compelling analogies, metaphors, and succinct explanations of assessment processes and findings, as well as principals of productive expert testimony for direct and cross examination. This book allows readers

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Franks, Hallie M. The World Underfoot. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863166.001.0001.

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In the Greek Classical period, the symposium—the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation—was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter of the andron, symposiasts looked inward to the room’s center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the specter of Dionysos, the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. This book takes

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Kagen, Melissa. Wandering Games. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13856.001.0001.

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An analysis of wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism, gender, and death. Wandering in games can be a theme, a formal mode, an aesthetic metaphor, or a player action. It can mean walking, escaping, traversing, meandering, or returning. In this book, game studies scholar Melissa Kagen introduces the concept of “wandering games,” exploring the uses of wandering in a variety of game worlds. She shows how the much-derided Walking Simulator—a term that began as an insult, a denigration of games that are less violent, less task-oriented, or less diffic

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Ryle, Cym Anthony. Risk and Reason in Clinical Diagnosis. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190944001.001.0001.

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This book provides, without the use of specialist language, a description of diagnostic reasoning and error and a discussion of steps that could improve diagnostic accuracy. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology, it presents the key characteristics of human reasoning. It notes that complex cognitive tasks such as medical diagnosis require a synergy of intuition and analytical thinking and introduces the concept of bias. The book considers the value of current classifications of disease, the meaning of diagnostic thresholds, and the potential for overdiagnosis. It examines the role of the pat

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Redmond, Geoffrey. Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350078208.

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The 3,000 year oldI Chingis the most esteemed of the ancient Chinese classics, yet also the most enigmatic.Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes)incorporates recent advances in scholarship, such as recently excavated texts, and demonstrates how theZhouyi(the ancient textual layer of theI Ching) was compiled from mostly oral material and how it was organized to serve as an easily consulted compendium of divination responses. In this book Geoffrey Redmond clarifies the meanings of the ancient text by examining use of literary devices such as prognostic terms, imagery from daily life, rhetorical t

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Gelernter, David. Mirror Worlds. Oxford University Press, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195068122.001.0001.

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Technology doesn't flow smoothly; it's the big surprises that matter, and Yale computer expert David Gelernter sees one such giant leap right on the horizon. Today's small scale software programs are about to be joined by vast public software works that will revolutionize computing and transform society as a whole. One such vast program is the "Mirror world." Imagine looking at your computer screen and seeing reality--an image of your city, for instance, complete with moving traffic patterns, or a picture that sketches the state of an entire far-flung corporation at this second. These represen

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Chupin, Jean-Pierre. Analogical Thinking in Architecture. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350343658.

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Since the turn of the 21st century, “design thinking” has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected to succeed whenever disciplinary boundaries need to be transcended, and it is imperative when thinking “outside the box.” This book argues that these qualities have long been supported by “analogical thinking”—an agile way of reasoning in which symbolic connections allow designers to address the complexities of the design process. An active field in cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, psychology, and philosophy, “analogical thinking” has yet to be theorized

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