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Houen, Alex. Sacrifice and Modern War Writing. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198912316.001.0001.

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Abstract This book surveys how Anglophone war writing explores sacrifice in relation to major conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: the First World War; the Irish ‘Easter Rising’ and Anglo-Irish War; the Spanish Civil War; the Second World War; the Vietnam War; the Cold War; and the War on Terror. Various conceptions of sacrifice are examined, including Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and secular, and the discussion ranges across literary portrayals of multiple sacrificial practices, including martyrdom, scapegoating, and ancient practices of child sacrifice. Writings by over 110

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Lushnikov, B. V. Drawing. Figurative and Expressive Means. Book on Demand Ltd., 2018.

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DeWitt, Jim. Means Something Else--"The Doubles": Figures-Of-Speech Writing Book (Figurative Expressions). Pen-Dec Press, 1987.

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Davis, Wayne A. Calculability, Convention, and Conversational Implicature. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0004.

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I applaud the arguments in Lepore and Stone (2015) that Gricean, Neo-Gricean, and Relevance theories of conversational implicature and utterance interpretation are deeply flawed because the additional meanings speakers convey when using sentences are conventional rather than calculable. I then go on to rebut several conclusions Lepore and Stone endorse that do not follow: that there is no such thing as conversational implicature; that in figurative speech speakers do not mean anything beyond what the sentences they utter mean; that anything a speaker means is something the speaker directly int

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Elliott, Kamilla. Theorizing Adaptation. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197511176.001.0001.

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Asking why adaptation has been seen as more problematic to theorize than other humanities subjects, and why it has been more theoretically problematic in the humanities than in the sciences and social sciences, Theorizing Adaptation seeks to both explicate and redress “the problem of theorizing adaptation” through a metacritical history of theorizing adaptation from the late sixteenth century to the present, a metatheoretical theory of the relationship between theorization and adaptation in the humanities, and analysis of and experimentation with the rhetoric of theorizing adaptation. Adaptati

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Abley, Mark. Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean. Simon & Schuster, 2018.

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Abley, Mark. Watch your tongue: What our everyday sayings and idioms figuratively mean. 2018.

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Professor, Baby. Do You Mean What You Said? List of Common Sayings and Phrases Figurative Language Grade 4 Children's ESL Books. Speedy Publishing LLC, 2021.

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Do You Mean What You Said? List of Common Sayings and Phrases Figurative Language Grade 4 Children's ESL Books. Speedy Publishing LLC, 2021.

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Professor, Baby. Do You Mean What You Said? List of Common Sayings and Phrases Figurative Language Grade 4 Children's ESL Books. Speedy Publishing LLC, 2021.

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Schlieter, Jens. The Advent of Parapsychology and the Figuration of “Out-of-the-Body Experiences” (1880–1930). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888848.003.0008.

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This chapter outlines how the term “out-of-the-body experience” emerged in spiritualist and parapsychological literature. As is shown, “psychical researchers” such as Frederic W. Myers and William James made a significant contribution. The chapter also deals with the “filter” theory or “transmission” theory, i.e., the idea of the brain as a means for the inhibition of consciousness. This theory, as is shown, has been developed in close interaction with phenomena “near death”—in particular, the “panoramic life review.” The filter theory, discussed in subsequent chapters 2.6. and 2.7, too, is st

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Cohen, Ted. Metaphor. Edited by Jerrold Levinson. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279456.003.0020.

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Metaphor is one of a variety of uses of language in which what is communicated is not what the words mean literally. It is, therefore, so to speak, a way of speaking of something by talking about something else. Thus, one has said (or written) X and thereby communicated Y. This characteristic of ‘indirectness’ is not alone sufficient to distinguish metaphors from other non-standard uses of language, but there is also a question as to whether metaphors in general are sufficiently similar to one another to permit a single, unified description of them. On one hand, metaphor has been a feature of

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Baras, Dan. Calling for Explanation. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197633649.001.0001.

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Abstract This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the idea that some facts call for explanation, an idea that underlies influential debates in metaethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. Special attention is given to reliability arguments in philosophy of mathematics and metaethics, and to fine-tuning arguments in philosophy of religion and cosmology. The book clarifies what it might mean to say that a fact calls for explanation, singling out an epistemic sense that is the focus of most of the book, and maps out possible views

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Cohan, Steven. Movie-Struck Hollywood. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865788.003.0004.

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This chapter looks at female star narratives of the 1920s and 1930s, from The Extra Girl (1923) and Souls for Sale (1923) to Alice in Movieland (1940) and Star Dust (1940), discussing their historical if increasingly anachronistic basis in the problematic figure of “the movie-struck girl.” This was the figuration of the female fan of the silent era who went to Hollywood in search of economic, emotional, and sexual independence. The contradictions raised by the “movie-struck girl” were inherent in the institutionalization of female stardom. Thus, these tensions structure early star narratives,

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Bontemps, Arna. The Underground Railroad. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037696.003.0004.

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This chapter discusses the role of the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses, in providing a means for slaves in Illinois and other parts of the country to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. Citizens of Bond County, Illinois, had been harboring runaway slaves as early as 1819. The first known case of dispatching a fugitive from Chicago to Canada occurred in 1839. Much of the communication relating to fugitive slaves was carried on in a guarded language. Special signals, whispered conversation

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Dorwart, Jason B. Incorporeal Corpse. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978732544.

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In this book, Jason B. Dorwart contends that the material presence of visible disability disrupts the framing devices that provide safe distancing for theatre’s fictive nature. Conceptions of disability that place the disabled body into a permanently liminal space between life and death are directly at odds with theatrical performances, which are geared toward moving through liminality into a new point of stasis. Dorwart reveals how this contradiction leads to performance practices that work to marginalize and eliminate the presence of disabled bodies of both character and actor, as disabled c

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Tzohar, Roy. A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.001.0001.

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This book is about what metaphors mean and do within Buddhist texts. More specifically, it is about the fundamental Buddhist ambivalence toward language, which is seen as obstructive and yet necessary for liberation, as well as the ingenious response to this tension that one Buddhist philosophical school—the early Indian Yogācāra (3rd–6th century CE)—proposed by arguing that all language use is in fact metaphorical (upacāra). Exploring the profound implications of this claim, the book presents the full-fledged Yogācāra theory of meaning—one that is not merely linguistic, but also perceptual.De

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