Visual Metaphor And Embodiment In Graphic Illness Narratives

Author : Elisabeth El Refaie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9780190678173

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Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives by Elisabeth El Refaie Pdf

Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which dominates the field of contemporary metaphor studies, is centered on this claim. According to this theory, correlations in the way the world is perceived in early childhood (e.g., happy/good is up, understanding is seeing) persist in our conceptual system, influencing our thoughts throughout life at a mostly unconscious level. What happens, though, when ordinary embodied experience is disrupted by illness? In this book, Elisabeth El Refaie explores how metaphors change according to our body's alteration due to disease. She analyzes visual metaphor in thirty-five graphic illness narratives (book-length stories about disease in the comics medium), re-examining embodiment in traditional CMT and proposing the notion of "dynamic embodiment." Building on recent strands of research within CMT and engaging relevant concepts from phenomenology, psychology, semiotics, and media studies, El Refaie demonstrates how the experience of our own bodies is constantly adjusting to changes in our individual states of health, socio-cultural practices, and the modes and media by which we communicate. This fundamentally interdisciplinary work also proposes a novel classification system of visual metaphor, based on a three-way distinction between pictorial, spatial, and stylistic metaphors. This approach will enable readers to advance knowledge and understanding of phenomena involved in shaping our everyday thoughts, interactions, and behavior.

Author : Sweetha Saji,Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000513486

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Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine by Sweetha Saji,Sathyaraj Venkatesan Pdf

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence. In this context, by using Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), this study uncovers the broad spectrum of the mentally ills’ experiences, a relatively undertheorised area in medical humanities. The aim is to demonstrate that mentally ill people are often represented as either grotesquely exaggerated or overly romanticised across diverse media and biomedical discourses. Further, they have been disparaged as emotionally drained and unreasonable individuals, incapable of active social engagements and against the healthy/sane society. The study also aims to unsettle the sanity/insanity binary and its related patterns of fixed categories of normal/abnormal, which depersonalise the mentally ill by critically analysing seven graphic narratives on mental illness.

Author : Maggie Gray,Ian Horton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9783030935078

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Seeing Comics through Art History by Maggie Gray,Ian Horton Pdf

This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well as considering what Art History proposes of comic scholarship, including the questioning of some of its deep-rooted categories and procedures, it also appraises what comics and Comics Studies afford and ask of Art History. This book draws together the work of international scholars applying art-historical methodologies to the study of a range of comic strips, books, cartoons, graphic novels and manga, who, as well as being researchers, are also educators, artists, designers, curators, producers, librarians, editors, and writers, with some undertaking practice-based research. Many are trained art historians, but others come from, have migrated into, or straddle other disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and a range of subjects within Art & Design practice.

Author : Monica Chiu
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271097008

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Show Me Where It Hurts by Monica Chiu Pdf

Author : Réka Benczes,Veronika Szelid
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257406

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Visual Metaphors by Réka Benczes,Veronika Szelid Pdf

Whenever we think about the world – including its concrete and abstract entities – we typically see a series of so-called mental images in front of our eyes that aid us in everyday problem solving and navigating ourselves in the world. Visual metaphors, similarly to their linguistic counterparts, largely build on such images. Nevertheless, the interplay of metaphorical/metonymical text and imagery is not necessarily (and not usually) straightforward and raises complex theoretical and methodological questions. The eleven chapters in this collection address a wide range of such challenges, such as what are visual metaphors in the first place; how can they be identified; what is their relationship to linguistic metaphors; what are their most common manifestations; what knowledge structures are required for their interpretation; and how do they interact with metonymies. The studies cut across linguistics, politics, philosophy, poetry, art and history – highlighting the ubiquitous role that visual metaphor plays in everyday life and conceptualizations. Originally published as special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2020).

Author : Anders Juhl Rasmussen,Morten Sodemann
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781648899287

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Narrative Medicine: Trauma and Ethics by Anders Juhl Rasmussen,Morten Sodemann Pdf

This new volume repositions narrative medicine and trauma studies in a global context with a particular focus on ethics. Trauma is a rapidly growing field of especially literary and cultural studies, and the ways in which trauma has asserted its relevance across disciplines, which intersect with narrative medicine, and how it has come to widen the scope of narrative research and medical practice constitute the principal concerns of this volume. This collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars coming from a wide range of academic fields within the faculty of humanities that include literary and media studies, psychology, philosophy, history, anthropology as well as medical education and health care studies. This crossing of disciplines is also represented by the collaboration between the two editors. Most of the authors in the volume use narrative medicine to refer to the methodology pioneered by Rita Charon and her colleagues at Columbia University, but in some chapters, the authors use it to refer to other methodologies and pedagogies utilizing that descriptor. Trauma is today understood both in the restricted sense in which it is used in the mental health field and in its more widespread, popular usage in literature. This collection aspires to prolong, deepen, and advance the field of narrative medicine in two important aspects: by bringing together both the cultural and the clinical side of trauma and by opening the investigation to a truly global horizon.

Author : Anneleen Masschelein ,Florian Mussgnug,Jennifer Rushworth
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800081130

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Mediating Vulnerability by Anneleen Masschelein ,Florian Mussgnug,Jennifer Rushworth Pdf

Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in literary studies through the pressures the discipline brings to bear on its own categories, particularly those of genre. Extinction and preservation on the one hand, transformation, adaptation and (re)mediation on the other. These two poles inform our comparative and interdisciplinary project. The volume is situated within the particular intercultural and intermedial context of contemporary cultural representation. Vulnerability is explored as a site of potential destruction, human as well as animal, but also as a site of potential openness. This is the first book to bring vulnerability studies into dialogue with media and genre studies. It is organised in four sections: ‘Human/Animal’; Violence/Resistance’; ‘Image/Narrative’; and ‘Medium/Genre’. Each chapter considers the intersection of vulnerability and genre from a comparative perspective, bringing together a team of international contributors and editors. The book is in dialogue with the reflections of Judith Butler and others on vulnerability, and it questions categories of genre through an interdisciplinary engagement with different representational forms, including digital culture, graphic novels, video games, photography and TV series, in addition to novels and short stories. It offers new readings of high-profile contemporary authors of fiction including Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy, as well as bringing lesser-known figures to the fore.

Author : Marsha Morton,Ann-Marie Akehurst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000904147

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Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750 by Marsha Morton,Ann-Marie Akehurst Pdf

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media. Images discussed range from the depiction of people and places to the invisible realms of pathogens and emotions, while topics include the messaging of disease prevention and containment in public health initiatives, the motivations of governments to ensure control, the criticism of authority in graphic satire, and the private experience of illness in the domestic realm. Essays explore biomedical conditions as well as the recurrent constructed social narratives of bias, blame, and othering regarding race, gender, and class that are frequently highlighted in visual representations. This volume offers a pictured genealogy of pandemic experience that has continuing resonance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, history of medicine, and medical humanities.

Author : Zsófia Demjén,Sarah Atkins,Elena Semino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000895292

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Researching Language and Health by Zsófia Demjén,Sarah Atkins,Elena Semino Pdf

Researching Language and Health explores key topics in illness and healthcare contexts through multiple linguistic lenses. This book highlights key themes, guides readers through the design stages of research and the ethical considerations specific to linguistic health research, and brings methods and methodologies to life by demonstrating how these can be applied to specific issues in context. Covering a wide range of health conditions, healthcare contexts, and data types, with an emphasis on those most accessible to students and new researchers, the authors foreground the ‘so what?’ of research and the impact that linguistic studies can have. Both a guide to key elements of the research process and a holistic view of research projects that have been successful, insightful, and impactful in different contexts, this is an essential text for advanced students and researchers in healthcare communication and applied linguistics.

Author : Sarah E. Duffy,Michele I. Feist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107194038

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Time, Metaphor and Language by Sarah E. Duffy,Michele I. Feist Pdf

This book explores how metaphoric conceptualizations of time arise from an interplay between space, context, and individual characteristics.

Author : Anna Piata,Adriana Gordejuela,Daniel Alcaraz Carrión
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257413

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Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity by Anna Piata,Adriana Gordejuela,Daniel Alcaraz Carrión Pdf

In recent years, the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth, providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor. But if metaphorical representations of time are established in the cognitive system, how are they manipulated when humans are engaged in creative expression? This is the question that the present volume addresses, on the assumption that by interrogating creativity, new insights into our understanding of time may be gained. Our view of creativity, which informs the ten chapters that compose this volume, endorses not only the extraordinary instances found in poetry and the arts (cinema, music, graphic novels, etc.), but also its more ‘mundane’, everyday manifestations that appear in ordinary language use, political discourse, or TV news. Spanning across modalities (verbal, pictorial, auditory, and gestural), the exemplary expressions herein are intended to reflect the richness and diversity vis-à-vis the creativity of time representations while also pointing to the common underpinnings that motivate and constrain creativity.

Author : Wen Xu,John R. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351034692

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The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics by Wen Xu,John R. Taylor Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in pragmatics, discourse analysis, biolinguistics, ecolinguistics, evolutionary linguistics, neuroscience, language pedagogy, and translation studies. The forty-three chapters, written by international specialists in the field, cover four major areas: • Basic theories and hypotheses, including cognitive semantics, cognitive grammar, construction grammar, frame semantics, natural semantic metalanguage, and word grammar; • Central topics, including embodiment, image schemas, categorization, metaphor and metonymy, construal, iconicity, motivation, constructionalization, intersubjectivity, grounding, multimodality, cognitive pragmatics, cognitive poetics, humor, and linguistic synaesthesia, among others; • Interfaces between cognitive linguistics and other areas of linguistic study, including cultural linguistics, linguistic typology, figurative language, signed languages, gesture, language acquisition and pedagogy, translation studies, and digital lexicography; • New directions in cognitive linguistics, demonstrating the relevance of the approach to social, diachronic, neuroscientific, biological, ecological, multimodal, and quantitative studies. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers working in this area.

Author : Erin La Cour,Simon Grennan,Rik Spanjers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030749743

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Key Terms in Comics Studies by Erin La Cour,Simon Grennan,Rik Spanjers Pdf

Key Terms in Comics Studies is a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics, including those from other languages that are currently adopted and used in English. Written by nearly 100 international and contemporary experts from the field, the entries are succinctly defined, exemplified, and referenced. The entries are 250 words or fewer, placed in alphabetical order, and explicitly cross-referenced to others in the book. Key Terms in Comics Studies is an invaluable tool for both students and established researchers alike.

Author : Zoltán Kövecses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108490870

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Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory by Zoltán Kövecses Pdf

Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.

Author : Carina Rasse
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257734

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Poetic Metaphors by Carina Rasse Pdf

Poetry pushes metaphor to the limit. Consider how many different, dynamic, and interconnected dimensions (e.g., text, rhyme, rhythm, sound, and many more) a poem has, and how they all play a role in the ways (metaphorical) meaning is constructed. There is probably no other genre that relies so much on the creator’s ability to get his or her message across while, at the same time, leaving enough room for the interpreters to find out for themselves what a poem means to them, what emotions and feelings it evokes, and which experiences it conveys. This book uses interviews, questionnaires and think-aloud protocols to investigate the meanings and functions of metaphors from a poet’s perspective and to explore how readers interpret and engage with this poetry. Besides the theoretical contribution to the field of metaphor studies, this monograph presents numerous practical implications for a systematic exploration of metaphors in contemporary poetry and beyond.