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Hocker Rushing, Janice; Frentz, Thomas S. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1999
Expands the literature of discontent with academic scholarship by showing how malaise is grounded metaphorically in the uncritical celebration of "up" and the vilification of "down." Historicizes these metaphors through classical Greek poetry and philosophy to rediscover how flowing back and forth between Apollonian upness and…
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