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Cancer as a Metaphor
Metaphor and Symbol 34 (2):81-95 (2019)
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ABSTRACTSince the publication of Susan Sontag’s highly influential Illness as Metaphor in 1978, many studies have provided follow-up analyses on her critique of metaphors for cancer, but none hav...Other Versions
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