This Mad Instead: Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction (Non Series) - Hardcover
An investigation of metaphorical operations in the writing of several contemporary US novelists, including John Updike and Paul Auster. It examines how each author establishes a provisional government over the elusiveness of truth, the ambiguity of experience, and the hardships of language.
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A sumptuous reading of metaphor in contemporary American fiction. -- Patrick O'Donnell, Michigan State University
Saltzman is one of American fiction's great discoverers, elucidators, and synthesizers. -- Jerome Klinkowitz, University of Northern Iowa
Saltzman is the rare literary critic who is also a good writer. . . . [U]nusually vivid literary criticism. -- Modern Fiction Studies, Summer 2002
This astonishing exploration of "word" and "world" will surely become indispensable for all future critics of contemporary American fiction. -- Irving Malin, City College of New York
Saltzman is one of American fiction's great discoverers, elucidators, and synthesizers. -- Jerome Klinkowitz, University of Northern Iowa
Saltzman is the rare literary critic who is also a good writer. . . . [U]nusually vivid literary criticism. -- Modern Fiction Studies, Summer 2002
This astonishing exploration of "word" and "world" will surely become indispensable for all future critics of contemporary American fiction. -- Irving Malin, City College of New York
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- PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1570033269
- ISBN 13 9781570033261
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages232
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