Contagion and the National Body: The Organism Metaphor in American Thought 1351394088, 9781351394086

Tools and the Organism : Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine 9780226828787, 9780226828770

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Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine 9780226828787

The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of h

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National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage 9780822384243

Explores the ways that playwrights and performers have dealt with the presentation of the Asian American body on stage,

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Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture 9781474477468

A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture Yankee Y

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Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China 9780674286955

Carlos Rojas focuses on the trope of “homesickness” in China—discomfort caused not by a longing for home but by excessiv

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Seashore Organism in Penang National Park 9789838617178, 9789838616065

This is the first field guide for the seashore organisms in Penang National Park, Penang, Malaysia to present the magnif

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Metaphor and Musical Thought 0226769720, 9780226769721

"The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the c

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Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy 9780226720081

In Pragmatism’s Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous de

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Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment (Elements in Cognitive Linguistics) 9781009042468, 9781009045582, 100904558X

By exploring the associations that people make between emotions and colours, looking at how they vary across languages,

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The Comparable Body - Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine 9789004356771, 9004356770

The Comparable Body explores how analogy and metaphor illuminate and shape conceptions about the human body and disease,

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