Motives for metaphor : literacy, curriculum reform, and the teaching of English
Since metaphor, by its very definition, brings two different entities together, James Seitz argues that it is the key to successfully integrating the seemingly different disciplines that make up English studies.
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, ©1999
xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
9780822940937, 9780822956921, 0822940930, 0822956926
40755174
Acknowledgments
Prologue: metaphor and the English studies curriculum
pt. 1. Paradox: Aberrant figures: composition and the "teaching" of metaphor. Higher learning: reading (for) metaphor in the literature class
pt. 2. Possibility: Literal fictions: equivalence, difference, and the dialogic metaphor. "Other formulations": reading and writing the fragmentary text. Performing selves: the writer as metaphor. Epilogue: toward a metaphoric curriculum