Monster Metaphors: When Rhetoric Runs Amok
Peter J. Adams
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.
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.
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Year:
2023
Publisher:
Routledge
Language:
english
Pages:
258
ISBN 10:
1032122102
ISBN 13:
9781032122106
ISBN:
2022049230
Series:
Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
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PDF, 11.99 MB
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english, 2023