Contagious metaphor

by Mitchell, Peta

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Title Statements

Full title :Contagious metaphor / Peta Mitchell.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Continuum
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:pages cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781441132734, 1441132732, 9781441197436, 1441197435, 9781441104212, 1441104216
oclc:ocn814318680
LC Classification:P301.5.M48
Dewey Decimal:808.032

Contagious metaphor -- Pestilence and poison winds: literary contagions and the endurance of miasma theory -- The French fin de siècle and the birth of social contagion theory -- The contagion of example -- Infectious ideas: Dawkins, meme theory, and the politics of metaphor -- Networks of contagion.

Subjects

Contagion (Social psychology) Contagion sociale Metaphor -- Social aspects Metaphor in literature Métaphore -- Aspect social Métaphore dans la littérature