Vehicles : : Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination /

Vehicles : : Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination / / ed. by David Lipset, Richard Handler.

Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes of semiotic transportation t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Auslander, Mark,
Chappell, Ben,
Fernandez, James W.,
Handler, Richard,
Lipset, David,
Notar, Beth E.,
Roth, Joshua Hotaka,
Wayland, Kent,
Živković, Marko,
HerausgeberIn:
Handler, Richard,
Lipset, David,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction: Charon’s Boat and Other Vehicles of Moral Imagination
  • Part I Persons as Vehicles
  • Chapter 1 Living Canoes Vehicles of Moral Imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea
  • Chapter 2 Cars, Persons, and Streets: Erving Goff man and the Analysis of Traffic Rules Richard Handler
  • Part II Vehicles as Gendered Persons
  • Chapter 3 “It’s Not an Airplane, It’s My Baby” Using a Gender Metaphor to Make Sense of Old Warplanes in North America
  • Chapter 4 Is Female to Male as Lightweight Cars Are to Sports Cars? Gender Metaphors and Cognitive Schemas in Recessionary Japan
  • Part III Equivocal Vehicles
  • Chapter 5 Little Cars that Make Us Cry: Yugoslav Fića as a Vehicle for Social Commentary and Ritual Restoration of Innocence
  • Chapter 6 “Let’s Go F.B.!” Metaphors of Cars and Corruption in China
  • Chapter 7 Barrio Metaxis: Ambivalent Aesthetics in Mexican American Lowrider Cars
  • Chapter 8 Driving into the Light: Traversing Life and Death in a Lynching Reenactment by African-Americans in a Multiracial Setting
  • Afterword: Quo Vadis?
  • Contributors
  • INDEX

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