Motives for Metaphor: Literacy, Curriculum Reform, and the Teaching of English - Couverture souple

Seitz, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822956926 ISBN 13 : 9780822956921

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999

Synopsis

Despite urgent calls for reform, composition, literature, and creative writing, remain territorial, competitive fields. This book imagines ways in which the three English camps can reconnect. Seitz contends that the study of metaphor can advance curriculum reform precisely because of its unusual institutional position. By pronouncing equivalence in the very face of difference, metaphor performs an irrational discursive act that takes us to the nexus of textual, social, and ideological questions that have stirred such contentious debate in recent years over the function of English studies itself. As perhaps the most radical (yet also quotidian) means by which language negotiates difference, metaphor can help us to think about the politics of identification and the curricular movements such a politics has inspired.

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À propos de l?auteur

James E. Seitz received his Ph.D. in English from New York University. He taught and served as director of writing at Long Island University, Brooklyn, and is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches gr

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822956926
• ISBN 13: 9780822956921
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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