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From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation
By (Author) Maggie Kilgour
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
809.915
Paperback
324
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
Focusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between outside and inside and the strategies of incorporation by which it is transcended. This opposition is basic to literature in that it underlies other polarities such as those between form and content, the