Contagious metaphor. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peta Mitchell.
• Other Names: Mitchell, Peta
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (200 pages)
• Subjects: 808.032; Metaphor -- Social aspects; Metaphor in literature; Contagion (Social psychology); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric; REFERENCE -- Writing Skills; Contagion (Social psychology); Metaphor in literature; Metaphor -- Social aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441197436; 1441197435; 9781283853378
• Related ISBNs: 128385337X; 9781441132734; 1441132732; 1441197435; 9781441104212; 1441104216
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.