Tripping over our tropes: Of "passing" and postmodern subjectivity - What's in a metaphor?

JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 435-467

  Kopelson, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

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