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Distance Remakes the Heart in Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’
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Distance Remakes the Heart in Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’

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 / 20 July 2020

Throughout Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez depicts love as an infectious disease. Must we quarantine from it?

Ecologizing the Political: Scapegoating, the Naturalistic Metaphor, and Propaganda
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Ecologizing the Political: Scapegoating, the Naturalistic Metaphor, and Propaganda

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 / 11 May 2015
Metaphors reliant on "phobias" and "plagues" pass the buck to future generations, as if we have no control over our situations, when we in fact do.