COVID and its Metaphors
Francisca Bartilotti Matos discusses the metaphors we use to describe COVID-19 and the effect these metaphors have.
Snow
Laura Grace Simpkins discusses visual disturbances and the metaphors we use to describe them.
The Dementia “Epidemic”: Examining Illness Metaphors in a Time of Pandemic
Avril Tynan examines the dementia “epidemic” and the problems posed by illness metaphors in the context of coronavirus.
‘Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel’: Book Review
Sierra Moreno reviews Laura Otis’ Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel (Oxford University Press: 2019). To feel an emotion is to experience a movement. When something affects us emotionally, we might describe it
Resurrecting the Present
Is it possible to address the AIDS pandemic without recourse to metaphor? Yes, argues Mícheál McCann, citing the ‘admirable ordinariness’ of Marie Howe’s 1997 collections of poems ‘What the Living Do’.