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18 de jun. de 2024 · In Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors, Sontag explains the metaphors of tuberculosis, cancer, insanity, syphilis, leprosy, pestilence, plague, AIDS, rabies phobia, cholera, polio...
10 de jun. de 2024 · This paper aims to uncover the conceptual systems of metaphor that the parents employ to communicate their lived reality and emotional undercurrents. Further, the paper establishes the connection between their lived reality and the uncanny.
Há 18 horas · Sontag draws the parallels between the bubonic plague and its links to morality- that feelings of evil are projected onto a disease, and often result in a community seeking a collective scapegoat- from the massacre of Jews in unprecedented numbers following the plague in Europe 1347-48, illnesses have been ‘used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust’ she ...
24 de jun. de 2024 · “War against COVID-19”: Is the Pandemic as War Metaphor Helpful or Hurtful?” Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating Covid-19 and Public Health Strategies. Edited by Andreas Musolff, et al. London: Bloomsbury, 202. 307-320.
Há 1 dia · Metaphors construct a dyadic relationship: a carefully selected metaphor lays down a conceptual bridge to a target system, inviting us to traverse its landscape through the metaphor’s lens. Following Hesse’s lead, engaging with metaphors in scientific thought means untangling a web of intuitive associations and organizing them into a coherent theoretical framework that aligns two analogs.
18 de jun. de 2024 · Susan Sontag’s cancer experience made her realize the harm that the inappropriate use of illness metaphors might do to patients. After recovering from breast cancer, she wrote in Illness as Metaphor that illness has been romanticized and stigmatized. She also elaborated on some illness metaphors, such as the military metaphors for illness, which are still the subject of debate. Her novel In ...
4 de jun. de 2024 · We will examine plays dealing with a range of disabilities and illnesses (including deafness, blindness, psychosis, cancer, HIV/AIDS, polio, cerebral palsy, dissociation, depression, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, and multiple sclerosis).
