Visual metaphor and embodiment in graphic illness narratives / Elisabeth El Refaie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El Refaie, Elisabeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc.

Narrative art--Themes, motives.

Narrative art.

Metaphor in literature.

Diseases in literature.

Sick in literature.

Diseases in art.

Sick in art.

Graphic novels--History and criticism.

Graphic novels.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 232 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Contents:

1.1 Toward a Notion of Dynamic Embodiment in Conceptual Metaphor Theory p. 4

1.3 Data and Methods of Analysis p. 11

1.4 Outline of Chapters p. 14

1 Reanimating the Body in Conceptual Metaphor Theory p. 18

1.1 The Discovery, Neglect, and Rediscovery of the Lived Body in Conceptual Metaphor Theory p. 21

1.2 Experimental Evidence of Flexible Embodied Conceptualizations p. 27

1.3 "Dys-appearance" and Empathic Projection p. 31

1.4 Embodiment and the Affordances of Modes and Media p. 36

1.4.1 Modes and Embodied Metaphor p. 36

1.4.2 Media and Embodied Metaphor p. 42

2 Dynamic Embodiment and the Graphic Illness Narrative Genre p. 47

2.1 Genre, Multimodal fry, and Embodiment p. 50

2.2 Origins and Evolution of the Graphic Illness Narrative Genre p. 54

2.3 The Body and Metaphor in Graphic Illness Narratives p. 56

2.4 Metaphor and the Characteristic Formal Features of Graphic Illness Narratives p. 60

2.4.1 Words and Images p. 61

2.4.2 Sequence and Space p. 72

2.4.3 Style and Materiality p. 75

3 A Tripartite Taxonomy of Visual Metaphor in Graphic Illness Narratives p. 81

3.1 Pictorial Metaphor p. 86

3.2 Spatial Metaphor p. 102

3.3 Stylistic Metaphor p. 109

4 Unseeing Eyes: Metaphor in Graphic Illness Narratives about Cancer p. 118

4.1 The Epistemology of Vision p. 123

4.2 Tire Medical Gaze p. 126

4.3 Cancer Metaphors in Graphic Pathographies p. 128

4.3.1 Visualizing Invasions, Journeys, Thieves, and Parasites p. 128

4.3.2 Visualizing Outer and Inner Selves p. 138

4.3.3 Like Pictures from Outer Space p. 145

5 Trapped in Spacetime: Metaphor in Graphic Illness Narratives about Depression p. 154

5.1 Time and Depression p. 159

5.2 Time, Space, and the Comics Medium p. 161

5.3 Depression Metaphors in Graphic Pathographies p. 165

5.3.1 Descent, Darkness, and Time p. 166

5.3.2 "Fractured/Split Selves and Time p. 173

5.3.3 Temporal Entrapment p. 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: El Refaie, Elisabeth. Visual metaphor and embodiment in graphic illness narratives.

ISBN:

9780190678173

0190678178

OCLC:

1043159949