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Motives for metaphor : literacy, curriculum reform, and the teaching of English / James E. Seitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seitz, James E., 1958-
- Series:
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English philology--Study and teaching (Higher).
- English philology.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Report writing.
- Curriculum change.
- Literacy.
- Metaphor.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- 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. Drawing upon a wide variety of resources -- from literary criticism, composition theory, and analytic philosophy, to rhetorical textbooks, student papers, and postmodern metafiction -- Seitz suggests that teachers of composition, literature and creative writing can build a shared pedagogical project, but only through transforming the very structure and purpose of the English department curriculum. Seitz imagines what such a transformation might consist of in the years ahead.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: metaphor and the English studies curriculum 1
- Paradox
- Aberrant figures: composition and the "teaching" of metaphor
- Higher learning: reading (for) metaphor in the literature class
- 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
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822940930
- 0822956926
- OCLC:
- 40755174
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