This mad "instead" governing metaphors in contemporary American fiction
Introduction : the tongue's ties -- Beholding Paul West and The women of Whitechapel -- The figure in the static : Don Delillo's White noise -- In the Millhauser archives -- Post hoc harmonies : Paul Auster's Leviathan -- The nightmare of relation : William Gass's The tunnel -- T...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Columbia, Great Britain
University of South Carolina
2000
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Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : the tongue's ties -- Beholding Paul West and The women of Whitechapel -- The figure in the static : Don Delillo's White noise -- In the Millhauser archives -- Post hoc harmonies : Paul Auster's Leviathan -- The nightmare of relation : William Gass's The tunnel -- The trope in the machine : Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 -- Kathy Acker's guerrilla mnemonics -- Down the rabbit whole : John Updike's Rabbit novels -- Conclusion : On the ethical behavior of metaphor. |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | XIV, 232 S. |
ISBN: | 1570033269 1-57003-326-9 |