The child metaphor in "that hideous strength". by Lim, Beatrice Mei Chwee.

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Embodied metaphors and creative "acts" by Kim, Suntae, Polman, Evan, Qiu, Lin, Sanchez-Burks, Jeffrey, Ong, Lay See, Goncalo, Jack A., Leung, Angela K.-y.

“…These metaphors suggest a connection between concrete bodily experiences and creative cognition. …”
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Female struggle and appetite/body autonomy in The Bell Jar. by Heng, Grace Hui Mien.

“…In precisely the same way females with eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia deny themselves the fulfilment of their appetites to retain their waistlines in order to prevent themselves from getting larger than society deems, so do women who restrict their metaphorical appetites and desires do so in order to trim themselves down to the ideals of femininity set out for them by patriarchal society.…”
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Trauma and the postmodern witness by Ong, Nicole Sihui

“…Postmodern fiction’s self-reflexivity over the metaphorical nature of language, suspicion toward metanarrative and attention to the form of storytelling prevents primary witnesses from using their language to claim knowledge about the survivor’s traumatic experience. …”
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Vanity and insecurity : Brian O'Nolan the Court Jester. by Ng, Clarice Shu Fen.

“…Such traits are paralleled by the court jester who was given the permission to “say whatever came into his head” at the risk of losing his life (Otto). Using the metaphor of the court jester, my final year project will examine the vanity and insecurity of Brian O‟Nolan the court jester of Ireland.…”
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Milan Kundera’s immortality : a novel of lack and limited representation. by Siti Zahrah Syafiah Jailani.

“…In this study, I argue that Milan Kundera’s Immortality - as his exemplary notion of a ‘moral’ new novel - is a metaphor for lack in its endeavour of love in the Platonic tradition in response to the era of Knowledge and Modern Science; the morality of which though is largely undermined by the blatant disembodiment of the female body to act as a mere vehicle for his theories. …”
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Deceptive feminist : the failure of feminism in Salman Rushdie’s fiction by Norjahan Makmon

“…Rushdie reduces potentially strong feminist characters in Shame, The Enchantress of Florence and The Ground Beneath Her Feet to metaphors of post-colonial struggles of the homeless male emigrant and remains ambivalent to the plight of females. …”
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Cartographic mismatches and language policy: the case of Hindi in Singapore by Jain, Ritu, Wee, Lionel

“…The language choices of Indian parents indicate that language values derive from the range of mobility (e.g., translocal or transnational) that languages have promoted or are perceived to help chart in the future. Adopting the metaphor of cartographies of language used by Park (2014), we suggest that these cartographic perceptions pose a challenge to language policies. …”
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An information war waged by merchants and missionaries at Canton : the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in China, 1834-1839 by Chen, Songchuan.

“…Thus, they prepared ‘intellectual artillery’ in the form of Chinese language publications, especially on world geography, to distribute among the Chinese, in the hope that this effort would familiarize the Chinese with the science and art of Westerners and thereby cultivate respect and a welcoming atmosphere. The war metaphor was conceived, and the information war was waged, in the periphery of the British informal empire in Canton, but it contributed to the conceptualization of war against China, both in Canton and in Britain, in the years before actual military action. …”
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The body-city hybrid : gothic transgression in Angela Carter’s novels by Tan, Fiona Maey Yee

“…With Carter’s artificial assemblages of gothic forms, she uses the body and the city as her greatest metaphors to provide insights on the grand narratives that seemingly shape reality and identity. …”
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白发垂髻的顽/玩童 ：西西疾病书写的人性观照 = An individual’s eternal youth Xi Xi’s writings on illness/disease and its humanistic contemplation by 骆逸玲 Loh, Eileen

“…Hence, this paper will seek to examine the writing style and content in various Xi Xi’s works in a chronological order, with references from Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, in a bid to discover the meaning about humanity. …”
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《华语语系社群在新加坡：以梁智强和陈子谦的电影为例》= Sinophone community in Singapore : a case study on the films of Jack Neo and Royston Tan by 許維賢 Hee, Wai Siam

“…It is precisely this forgetting of Singaporean and Malaysian Sinophone history that has been rationalized by national discourse into a metaphor for “localization” in Singapore.…”
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