Frontmatter -- Foreword from the Editors -- Table of Contents -- Special Focus: "Cranes on the Rise": Metaphors in Life Writing -- "Cranes on the Rise": Metaphors in Life Writing. An Introduction -- Metaphor, Myth, and Universality in Eve Ensler's In the Body of the World -- Homology, Analogy, and Metaphor in Kenny Fries's The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory -- Phenomenology and the Memoirs of Stephen Kuusisto -- About Vegetables and Depths in Life: Metaphors in the Autobiographical Work of Atte Jongstra -- Metaphors of Interrelatedness in Lorna Crozier's Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir -- Language as Metaphor: Functions of Metalinguistic Reflection in European Migrants' Life Writing -- 'Between Recipes and Stories': Food as Metaphor for Identity - Marusya Bociurkiw's Comfort Food for Breakups and Laura Elise Taylor's A Taste for Paprika -- "Writing is Not Homecoming": André Aciman's Autobiographical Essays -- General Section -- Fairytale Elements in D. H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "The Man Who Loved Islands" -- Dirt and Dickens's Symbolic Realism in Bleak House -- Book Reviews -- Adam Scovell. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange -- Rhodri Lewis. Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness -- Antonija Primorac. Neo-Victorianism on Screen: Postfeminism and Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Women -- List of Contributors -- Index