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Here's the abstract: This essay explores the metaphorics of copyright, and the conceptual and practical consequences of these metaphorics, during the era between the passage of the Act of Anne in 1710 and the 1774 judgment in Donaldson v.
Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Tension evokes the entire specular metaphorics and the predicament of self-reflection as the impossibility of invention at work here, specifically the metaphorics of
Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'' 2005
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How many metaphorics could a metaphoric-chuck chuck, if a metaphoric-chuck could chuck metaphorics?
Think Progress 2009
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At one level, this feminization reverses one of the key metaphorics of abolitionist discourse — i.e. that the sexual commodification of women in marriage is akin to the commodification of Africans in the institution of slavery. [
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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