Bøger af Peta Mitchell

An innovative interdisciplinary exploration of metaphors of contagion in language and culture.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216) index.

While the map metaphor has been employed for centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a transformation in the postmodern era. This work argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity.