Cantrell, Kate 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5689-614X and Batorowicz, Beata ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4915-8357 and Forbes, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2528-9763
(2022)
Mobilising Metaphor: Self-Making, Storytelling, and Consciousness Raising in the Creative Arts [Editorial].
NiTRO: Non Traditional Research Outcomes, 41.
pp. 1-3.
Abstract
Metaphors, like people, are complex entities. Metaphors live at the cross-roads of convergence and divergence, and they meet at points of connection, contraction, and intersectional friction. Indeed, it is metaphor’s unusual ability to simultaneously emphasise and de-emphasise certain understandings that gives metaphor its argumentative force and its creative power. Metaphor, by its nature, is paradoxical. As a unifying device, metaphor brings together disparate ideas, incongruous elements, and contrasting images to create new meaning. This meaning lies in the mingling of similarity and dissimilarity between the two things being compared. As such, metaphorical statements raise more questions than answers because metaphorical propositions always present to us as semantic puzzles.
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