Word: metaphorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked why a professor or student should spend a semester studying a peculiarity of human consumption, Huggan says he wanted to explore cannibalism as a metaphor in modern society...
Some students in the class agree that they are fascinated with the focus on cannibals as metaphor...
...think it's cannibals [for the sake of studying cannibals] because it hasn't been studied before," said James J. McNamara, a senior English concentrator writing his thesis on horror. "There are some interesting ways of looking at cannibal as metaphor...
...example of metaphor, McNamara cites sexual domination or an expression of violence...
...other students interviewed were not convinced the class succeeded in focusing on cannibalism as metaphor...