Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780190678173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Elisabeth El Refaie

Recenzje

This book absolutely delivers on the radical agenda that the author sets for herself. By focusing on visual metaphors in thirty-five graphic illness narratives, El Refaie challenges current theories of metaphor and embodiment to deal with multiple types of diversity (different bodies, different illnesses, different kinds of multimodal texts). This leads to insights and developments that will be relevant across many disciplines, from cognitive science through multimodal discourse analysis to the medical humanities. A marvelous achievement.

O autorze

Elisabeth (Lisa) El Refaie is Reader in Visual Communication at the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University (UK). Her main research interests are in visual and multimodal forms of communication. She is the author of Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures (University Press of Mississippi, 2012) and has published widely on metaphor theory, including in the journals Metaphor & Symbol and Metaphor & the Social World.