Author: Harish Kumar
Publisher: Harish Kumar
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Is mothball a metaphor for a proposal abandoned or for a project shelved? When does history become a metaphor for geography? How does the metaphor hive provoke a publication to jettison by-lines for good? How does butterfly win its metaphor battle with the beetle? Can chameleon be a metaphor for a colourful person? When does textbook become a positive metaphor for an individual? What is that useful metaphor in the frog-scorpion fable? Is albatross a metaphor now for power of flight or pathetic plight? Are all hounds pesky metaphors? Why is spine a wrong metaphor for physical heroism? Why isn’t maverick a metaphor for me-toos? Metaphors are everyday business and everyone’s right of speech. So, it is high time you had questions like these answered by an expert. Sure, More Metaphoric Madness brings expert advice, word-pictures and word imagery to your doorsteps, and ensures metaphors are no longer the sole preserve of academia and elite speakers-writers.
Author: John Martin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527515567
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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In a fascinating analysis of the great psychological and sociological thinkers—including Freud, Maslow, McClelland, Durkheim, Skinner, Lewin and Mead—this erudite text challenges the models, myths and metaphors of modern psychology. Psychologists have promoted the view that human beings are the victims of internal and external forces, and have laboured to absorb free and responsible individuals into a pseudo-scientific framework that denies moral agency and thus renders them incapable of recognising notions of right and wrong. This book will appeal to anyone who has read enough psychology to have been perplexed and frustrated by its famous emperors. It demonstrates that if we take these naked emperors seriously and deny human freedom and personal responsibility, we shall have contributed to the undermining of our civilisation. With skill and verve, the book carries readers through an array of ideas to a ‘purposive psychology’ that enables individuals to gain insight into, and mastery of, themselves.
Author: Monika Fludernik
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192577611
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a 'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed into the way carceral imaginary develops over time. Examining not only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature, the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of (im)prison(ment) and discussions about the prison as institution and experiential reality. It comments on present-day trends of punitivity and foregrounds the ethical dimensions of penal punishment. The main argument concerns the continuity of carceral metaphors through the centuries despite historical developments that included major shifts in policy (such as the invention of the penitentiary). The study looks at selected carceral metaphors, often from two complementary perspectives, such as the home as prison or the prison as home, or the factory as prison and the prison as factory. The case studies present particularly relevant genres and texts that employ these metaphors, often from a historical perspective that analyses development through different periods.
Author: Harish Kumar
Publisher: Harish Kumar
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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The Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking widespread disruption, social and economic. Much more than what the Great Depression and the Second World War together did. Unfolding as humankind’s greatest challenge to date, the pandemic is rapidly altering the world, its politics and economics. In the process, turning upside down established relationships, accepted rules and prevalent norms. Though we cannot foretell with certainty what is in store, we can at least try to decode the telltale signs that are popping up all around us. The Post-Pandemic Planet does precisely that. This futuristic study examines the socio-cultural changes that are in the offing. It peeps through the prism of unfolding events to understand the possibilities that lie ahead. Among others, The Post-Pandemic Planet looks at how coercion-employing territorial states are changing and how the politico-cultural nation states are morphing. It tries to go into the reasons why our social lives are gradually getting colonised and why mysophobia will increasingly dictate the complexion of travel tomorrow. Is Covidisation of a new European Union a possibility? What happens to the concept of common markets now? Will the Marshalls and the Molotovs give way to the Merkels of the world? Will food nationalism degenerate into gastroracism? What colour the world health order is likely to take? How will the dissent-intolerant governments manipulate the privacy laws tomorrow? Why is the World Wide Web in the danger of turning into a World Narrow Web? Will jingoistic data localisation lead to digital dictatorships? These are among a score of questions you will find answered in The Post-Pandemic Planet. As a pandemic-threatened planetarian, you are sure to find them absorbing.
Author: Gregory Brian Betts
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442643773
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to illustrate the extent to which Canadians have been producing avant-garde art since the start of the twentieth century. Betts explores the radical literary ambitions and achievements of three different nodes of avant-garde literary activity: mystical revolutionaries from the 1910s to the 1930s; Surrealists/Automatists from the 1920s to the 1960s; and Canadian Vorticists from the 1920s to the 1970s. Avant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country.
Author: Harish Kumar
Publisher: Harish Kumar
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Corporate surgeries are tricky business. A simple error here and a minor lapse there could put your corporation miles away from its goals. The chronicle of corporate restructuring is replete with stories of heartening hits and mournful misses, and each one of them comes with a lesson for potential corporate rejiggers. This book Canons of Corporate Surgery takes you through 15 such sacrosanct lessons, all backed by live wire cases from India Inc of the Nineties. But, remember, these canons are timeless and hold good wherever you are. Racily written in a corporate whodunit style, this handy work brings you the ground rules for successful corporate rejigs, relevant case studies and piercing peek into post-rejig performances. If you are toying with the idea of rejigging your corporation, you should begin with this must-read manual.
Author: Dr. Dan Edmunds
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557667860
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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Understanding extreme states of mind from a spiritual and mystical perspective. Dr. Edmunds journeys with Jarrad Dickson as he shares his experience of extreme states of mind. This text shows the importance of seeking understanding and compassion for a person's experience and seeks to make the experience comprehensible
Author: Harish Kumar
Publisher: Harish Kumar
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
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Pattur and Noolur are two mutually interdependent silk-weaving towns in South India. While Noolur made patturis for Pattur and fed Pattur’s silk looms with value-added silk yarns of superior quality, Pattur lent its eponymous tradename patturi to Noolur’s silk saris for greater visibility in global markets. This interdependence worked fine for both towns, until one Venkatraman, a first-generation English lecturer, appeared on the scene. Venkat was visibly enraged by Pattur’s Big Brother attitudes and actions, its dominance and its merciless exploitation of Noolurian silk weavers and silk co-operatives. Venkat assumes the role of an iconoclast and the responsibility for smashing the status quo. He goes about raising the war flag for Noolur’s generic independence and for liberating the nooluri eponym from the clutches of patturi. Venkat’s contagious war cries force Noolur and Pattur into ugly confrontational situations. Where and how do they end? What was the outcome of the face-offs? Did Venkat succeed in his mission? Whatever happened to the murky politics of eponyms? An unusual plot that spins around this murky politics of territorial eponyms, Politics of Eponyms is a must read for anyone who likes to delve deeper into how eponyms evolve and exploit, and weave offbeat novelettes in the bargain.
Author: David Campbell
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816622213
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Sweetha Saji
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000513483
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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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.
