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Rita, Corbin, and Ramshaw Gail 1947-, eds. A metaphorical God: An abecedary of images for God. Liturgy Training Publications, 1995.

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Max, Kisman, and Oosterhof Frans, eds. Word of image: Metaphorical thinking in Dutch graphic design. 2nd ed. Nijhof & Lee, 2000.

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Nira, Neʼeman, ed. The metaphoric body: Guide to expressive therapy through images and archetypes. J. Kingsley, 1993.

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Cervel, M. Sandra Peña. Topology and cognition: What image-schemas reveal about the metaphorical languages of emotions. Lincom Europa, 2003.

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Rooney, E. Gene. Amphorae: Metaphoric techniques for understanding, enhancing, and improving your self-image. L.E.A.D. Consultants, 1995.

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,Their Eyes Were Watching God - Analysis of the Main Conflicts and Some Metaphorical Images of the Novel. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2013.

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Thorup, Mikkel. Democratic Hatreds. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190465544.003.0011.

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For democracies what must cease to be is violence, or rather, the violent. The generalization of the hated other specific to democracies, informing and shaping how the hated other is perceived, combated, and made to serve as self-legitimacy for democracies, concerns violence; it is all about an idea constitutive to the self-understanding of democracies, that violence exists in this world because of others. This chapter analyzes how and why liberal democracies produce specific enemy images of “the hating other.” The focus is on the dividing line between the democratic and the nondemocratic, as

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Cameron, Allan. Visceral Screens. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419192.001.0001.

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Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie’s gory disintegration to the vampire’s absent reflection and from the shaky camerawork of ‘found footage’ horror to the spectacle of shattering glass in the Italian giallo. Addressing classic horror movies alongside popular and innovative contemporary works, Visceral Screens shows how they have rendered the human form as a type of ‘image-body’, mediated by optical effects, chromatic shifts, glitches and audiovisual fragmentation. The question of signification is central to this metaphorical exchange, s

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Song, Weijie. A Comparative Imperial Capital. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190200671.003.0005.

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This chapter considers how Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, and Victor Segalen envision their indigenous and exoticist urbanscape of Beijing, viewed from near and afar—a universalist construction, an Orientalist self-exhibition, and an “aesthetics of diversity.” By presenting pleasant rather than painful, harmonious rather than contradictory images of an everyday and imperial capital, Lin Yutang describes Beijing as an ideal, mythical, metaphorical, and semiotic city, a cultural code surviving barbarism, looting, conquest, and turbulence in modern times. Princess Der Ling, First Lady-in-Waiting

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Banks, Kathryn. ‘Look Again’, ‘Listen, Listen’, ‘Keep Looking’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794776.003.0008.

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This chapter offers a way of understanding the effects of poetic images (metaphorical or literal). It employs and extends the notion of ‘emergent properties’, as well as relevance theory’s account of how communicative acts can ‘show’ as much as they mean. The images examined are from poems by Mary Oliver (‘Wings’, ‘Wild Geese’, and ‘Mindful’). The chapter suggests that such poetry is particularly in need of a new theoretical approach capable of engaging with its focus on embodied experience and ‘merging’ with nature. It shows how ‘emergent properties’—for example, a complex sense of what conti

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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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Soza, Joel R. Lucifer, Leviathan, Lilith, and other Mysterious Creatures of the Bible. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780761877646.

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The bible is indeed a world of the strange and mysterious when it comes to the variety of creatures that are presented in its texts. These often times serve as images of good versus evil, or order versus chaos. Flat and narrowly myopic literal readings of the bible that at times lacks for imagination and creative insight to the bible’s occasional and amazingly metaphorical maze fall far short of what is needed to appreciate the full depth of the biblical world’s imagery. Therefore this work explores the meaning of the bible’s mysterious creatures with an emphasis on three creatures that all ap

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Xinyue, Bobby. Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855978.001.0001.

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This book offers a new interpretation of one of most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and argues that this theme functioned as a language of political science for the early Augustan poets as they tried to come to terms with Rome’s transformation from Republic to Principate. Examining an extensive body of texts ranging from Virgil’s Eclogues to Horace’s final book of the Odes (covering a period roughly from 43 BC to 13 BC), this study highlights the multifaceted metaphorical force of divinizing language, as well as the cultural complications of divinization. Throu

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Kennedy, Meegan. Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198940623.001.0001.

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Abstract Victorian microscopists saw observation as deeply embodied, the images emerging through a material entanglement of bodies (of the observer, instrument, apparatus, and object) in a dynamic, unstable system. These ideas echo mid-century work by physiological psychologists, who saw mind (perception, thinking, feeling) as embodied, distributed, and dynamic processes, enacted and affected by automatic or unconscious reflex action, attention, mental training, and fatigue. Microscopists circulated metaphorical and narrative tropes of embodiment through the varied forms of nineteenth-century

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Schotter, Jesse. Coda: The Rosetta Stone. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424776.003.0008.

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Hieroglyphs have persisted for so long in the Western imagination because of the malleability of their metaphorical meanings. Emblems of readability and unreadability, universality and difference, writing and film, writing and digital media, hieroglyphs serve to encompass many of the central tensions in understandings of race, nation, language and media in the twentieth century. For Pound and Lindsay, they served as inspirations for a more direct and universal form of writing; for Woolf, as a way of treating the new medium of film and our perceptions of the world as a kind of language. For Con

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Millar, Lesley, and Alice Kettle, eds. Reading the Thread. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350320529.

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Reading the Threadbrings together artists, theorists and designers to explore the nature and use of cloth as a means of record and communication. Cloth is constructed from threads and, in acknowledging its qualities of recording or communicating a story, we are reading the threads – the read thread. There is also, however, an East Asian myth that when you are born you are linked by an invisible red thread to your soul mate; no matter what you do, this red thread connects you to your fate and, although the thread may become tangled or infinitely long, it will never break. Exploring histories of

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Rooney, E. Gene. Amphorae: Metaphoric techniques for understanding, enhancing, and improving your self-image. L.E.A.D. Consultants, 1995.

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Ogden, Daniel. The Werewolf in the Ancient World. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854319.001.0001.

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The ancient world already cherished a rich folklore of werewolfism that broadly resembled the one copiously attested for the central medieval period in Europe. Our best access to the sort of narrative that underpinned such folklore comes in the well-known werewolf tale of the Neronian Petronius’ Satyricon, which shares some striking motifs with the equally famous AD 1160-78 Anglo-Norman tale of Bisclavret by Marie de France. It was, accordingly, folklore that determined the ancients’ conception of what a werewolf actually was. Almost all the evidence for werewolfism in antiquity should be rega

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Hutchinson, G. O. Motion in Classical Literature. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855620.001.0001.

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Ancient literature is full of people, gods, and animals in impressive motion. But while the importance of space has been realized recently, motion has had little attention, for all its prominence in literature, and its interest to ancient philosophy. Motion is bound up with decisions, emotions, character; its specific features are expressive. The book starts with motion in visual art: this leads to the characteristics of literary depiction. Literary works discussed are: Homer’s Iliad; Ovid’s Metamorphoses; Tacitus’ Annals; Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus; Parmenides’ On Nature; S

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Hellman, Samuel. Perceptions of Cancer. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190650551.003.0005.

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Cancer has major metaphoric significance not only to the public, but also to different medical specialties. This perception can determine patients’ attitudes toward the disease, as well as whether and when cancer is diagnosed and treated. The public has the same inexorably doomed image of the many diseases included in the term “cancer.” Some cancers are highly curable, and most are more likely cured if found early. As Susan Sontag has emphasized, the disease must be demythologized. Not only do the varying perceptions of cancer affect the public, these images also influence the different medica

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Franks, Hallie M. The Journey Out. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863166.003.0003.

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This chapter takes as its subject exotic mosaic imagery that is not easily identified as “sympotic” through an association with Dionysos. It argues that exotic imagery, particularly when paired with nautical or watery themes (as in examples at Eretria and Sikyon), refers to distant parts of the world that are accessed by a journey over the Ocean. During the symposium, this imagery, in combination with the prescribed movement of the wine cup as it “sails” in circles around the perimeter of the room, prompts the metaphorical experience, amply attested in literary sources, of the symposium as a j

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Camus, R. M. Archery Metaphor and Ritual in Early Confucian Texts. Lexington Books, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666984446.

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Archery Metaphor and Ritual in Early Confucian Texts explores the significance of archery as ritual practice and image source in classical Confucian texts. Archery was one of the six traditional arts of China, the foremost military skill, a tool for education, and above all, an important custom of the rulers and aristocrats of the early dynasties. Rina Marie Camus analyzes passages inspired by archery in the texts of the Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi in relation to the shifting social and historical conditions of the late Zhou dynasty, the troubled times of early followers of the ruist master C

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Baron, Alan, John Hassard, Fiona Cheetham, and Sudi Sharifi. Conclusions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813958.003.0011.

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The final chapter brings together a series of conclusions based on the preceding study of workplace attitudes, behaviour, and experiences within an English hospice. Initially it examines the nature of relationships between the three concepts that form the analytical core of this study—culture, identity, and image. This includes a wide-ranging critical review of these concepts in relation to the relevant fields of literature in management and organization theory. Subsequently a number of limitations are considered with regard to the use of Schein’s well-known three-level model of culture as a f

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Pappas-Kelley, Jared. Solvent Form. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526129246.001.0001.

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Solvent form examines the destruction of art—through objects that have been destroyed (lost in fires, floods, vandalism, or similarly those artists that actively court or represent this destruction, such as Gustav Metzger), but also as a process within art that the object courts through form. In this manner, Solvent form looks to events such as the Momart warehouse fire in 2004 as well as the actions of art thief Stéphane Breitwieser in which the stolen work was destroyed. Against this overlay, a tendency is mapped whereby individuals attempt to conceptually gather these destroyed or lost obje

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Blasing, Molly Thomasy. Snapshots of the Soul. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501753695.001.0001.

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This book considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, the book offers close readings of poems by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Bella Akhmadulina, as well as by the late and post-Soviet poets Andrei Sen-Sen'kov, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and Kirill Medvedev, to understand their fascination with the visual language, representational power, and metaphorical possibilities offered by the camera and

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Williams, Jennifer J. Queer Readings of the Prophets. Edited by Carolyn J. Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.013.30.

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This chapter provides an overview of queer readings, identifies how queer readings of biblical texts are indebted to queer theory, feminism, and gender criticism, and examines recurring themes and arguments in queer readings of the prophetic material. Building from this, this chapter’s queer reading reclaims female embodiment and sexuality by unearthing positive valences of the prophets’ use of the threshing floor euphemism and the sexual and metaphorical potential of gardens, vineyards, and moist land. This reading demonstrates how the euphemism of the threshing floor and the sexualized ferti

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Goodall, Alex. Policing Politics. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038037.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses how the idea of subversion allowed the supporters of war to get round these two, interrelated, problems of jurisprudence and rhetoric. In ideological terms, by defining dissenters as “subversive” it was possible to present opponents of war as essentially unpatriotic and un-American: if not un-American in strictly legal terms, then at least metaphorically, such that the abstract image of a unified nation could be preserved. Meanwhile, from a legal perspective, the idea of subversion could be used to designate a new, broad category of criminal behavior of sufficient gravit

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Gardner, Hunter H. Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796428.001.0001.

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Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventions of the Western plague narrative as a response to the breakdown of the Roman res publica in the mid-first century CE and the reconstitution of stabilized government under the Augustan Principate (31 BCE–14 CE). Relying on the metaphoric relationship between the human body and the body politic, these authors use largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery. Plague as such functions frequently in Roman texts to enact a drama in which the concerns of

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