Cavaliers, Heroes, and Devils: A Metaphoric Criticism of Dan Gilbert’s Attempt to Dethrone the King of Cleveland

This study focuses on the letter written by Dan Gilbert, the owner of the National Basketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers, in response to LeBron James’ decision on July 8, 2010, to play for another franchise. Metaphoric criticism is used to examine this artifact to reveal Gilbert’s motives for fabricating this letter. The discovered metaphors include LeBron as villain, LeBron as native son, LeBron as fallen hero/king/god, and ownership as hero. These separate metaphors coalesce to form the ultimate metaphor of LeBron as devil and expose Gilbert’s true feelings of anguish and betrayal after James’ departure. Particular attention is paid to what these metaphors suggest about the role of a professional athlete and the expectations they are required to fulfill

El ángel caído en "Política de Dios" y "Sueño del infierno" de Quevedo

This article tries to examine how Quevedo makes use of Lucifer (the devil, or the fallen angel) in his political treatise Política de Dios and in his menippean satire Sueño del infierno in order to criticise the king and his minister (valido) when treating the polemical question of reason of State.Este artículo pretende examinar cómo Quevedo aprovecha la figura de Lucifer (el diablo, o ángel caído) en su tratado político Política de Dios y en su sátira menipea Sueño del infierno para reprehender al rey y su privado al tratar de la polémica cuestión de la razón de Estado