Description: Contagious Metaphor, Hardcover by Mitchell, peta, ISBN 1441132732, ISBN-13 9781441132734, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Mitchell (English, media studies, and art history; U. of Queensland, Australia) documents how the notion of contagion has spread through popular culture over recent years, perhaps most noticeably in the viral metaphor in social networking and the linked impacts of the financial scandal. Her topics are literary contagions and the endurance of miasma theory; the French fin de siècle and the birth of social contagion theory; the contagion of examples; Richard Dawkings, meme theory, and the politics of metaphor; and networks of contagion. Bloomsbury Academic is an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Contagious Metaphor
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Contagious Metaphor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: General, Semiotics & Theory, Social Psychology
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines, Psychology
Author: Peta Mitchell
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover