All-Consuming Passions: Fire Metaphors in Fiction
This paper discusses the role of metaphor in describing intense romantic feelings relating to love, lust and desire in American fiction. I propose that ‘passion’ integrates notions of romantic ‘love’ with the related concepts of ‘lust’ and ‘desire’. Using the fiction section of the Corpus of Contemp...
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Main Author: | Jonathan CHARTERIS-BLACK |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2017-12-01
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Series: | E-REA |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5992 |
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