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9781570033261

This Mad Instead : Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction

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  • ISBN13:

    9781570033261

  • ISBN10:

    1570033269

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-01-01
  • Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Author Biography

Arthur Saltzman teaches English at Missouri Southern State College in Joplin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction The Tongue's Ties 1(18)
Beholding Paul West and The Women of Whitechapel
19(14)
The Figure in the Static: Don DeLillo's White Noise
33(16)
In the Millhauser Archives
49(14)
Post Hoc Harmonies: Paul Auster's Leviathan
63(11)
The Nightmare of Relation: William Gass's The Tunnel
74(20)
The Trope in the Machine: Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2
94(16)
Kathy Acker's Guerrilla Mnemonics
110(19)
Down the Rabbit Whole: John Updike's Rabbit Novels
129(60)
Conclusion On the Ethical Behavior of Metaphor
181(8)
Notes 189(20)
Works Cited 209(16)
Index 225

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