Monster Metaphors: When Rhetoric Runs Amok

by Peter J. Adams

Book Overview

This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance.

The volume begins by unpacking the dynamics of metaphors, their power and influence and the ways in which they are bolstered by other rhetorical devices. Adams...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032122102
• ISBN13: 9781032122106
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"