Motives for metaphor
Subtitle: literacy, curriculum reform, and the teaching of English
By: James E. Seitz.
Series: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: English philology -- Study and teaching.; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.; Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher); Curriculum change.; Literacy.; Metaphor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Prologue: metaphor and the English studies curriculum; title: pt. 1.  Paradox: Aberrant figures: composition and the "teaching" of metaphor. Higher learning: reading (for) metaphor in the literature class; title: pt. 2. 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.