Contagious metaphor
By: Peta Mitchell
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781441132734; 9781441197436; 9781441104212
Subjects: Social aspects; Metaphor; Contagion (Social psychology); Metaphor in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contagious metaphor; title: Pestilence and poison winds: literary contagions and the endurance of miasma theory; title: The French fin de siècle and the birth of social contagion theory; title: The contagion of example; title: Infectious ideas: Dawkins, meme theory, and the politics of metaphor; title: Networks of contagion.