Chapter 5. Creative visual metaphors of protracted and frozen time in autobiographical comics about depression

El Refaie, Elisabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5928-9297 2022. Chapter 5. Creative visual metaphors of protracted and frozen time in autobiographical comics about depression. Piatta, Anna, Gordejuela, Adriana and Alcaraz Carrion, Daniel, eds. Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Vol. 75. pp. 101-124. (10.1075/hcp.75.05elr)

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Abstract

One common but lesser-known symptom of depression is distorted temporal perception. This chapter analyzes visual metaphors in seven graphic memoirs about depression, revealing the unique opportunities for creativity in the evocation of subjective time offered by this genre. Specifically, the authors of these works use different combinations of “pictorial” and “spatial” metaphors (El Refaie 2019) to convey their sense of time slowing down or freezing, and of being out of sync with other people. These findings are related to Conceptual metaphor theory, including Stocker’s (2014) notion of “spacetime”.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
ISBN:	9789027211590
ISSN:	1387-6724
Last Modified:	27 Jan 2023 16:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156294

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