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Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the New and Improved Second Edition
v
8
A Letter to the Student
xiii
1. TEXTS AND PEOPLE
1
44
STORY AND STORYTELLER
2
24
Mary Louise Pratt
Natural Narrative
2
11
FOUR "LITERARY" ANECDOTES
13
1
Walter Benjamin
Anecdote (1) Ordnance
13
1
Patricia J. Williams
Anecdote (2) Polar Bears
14
1
Storm Jameson
Anecdote (3) Departures
15
1
Richard Huelsenbeck,
Anecdote (4) L.
16
3
William Carlos Williams
The Use of Force
19
3
Kate Chopin
The Kiss
22
4
CHARACTER AND CONFRONTATION
26
19
Frank Wedekind
Spring Awakening (a scene from the play)
26
3
Kate Chopin
The Kiss (dialogue from the story)
29
2
Erving Goffman
Character Contests
31
4
August Strindberg
The Stronger
35
5
Martin Esslin
Aristotle and the Advertisers: The Television Commercial as Drama (passages from the essay)
40
5
2. TEXTS, THOUGHTS, AND THINGS
45
84
THE LINGUISTIC BASIS OF METAPHOR
46
11
Roger Brown
What Words Are: Reference and Categories
46
5
Roger Brown
What Words Are: Metaphor
51
3
Robert Herrick
Delight in Disorder
54
3
METAPHOR IN THREE POEMS
57
3
W. S. Merwin
Separation
57
1
W.H. Auden
"Let us honor..."
57
1
Sylvia Plath
Metaphors
58
2
METAPHOR AND DREAM
60
4
Sigmund Freud
from Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
60
4
SURREALIST METAPHOR
64
6
TWO POEMS
65
1
Andre Breton
Broken Line
66
2
Wallace Stevens
Domination of Black
68
2
POETIC USES OF METAPHOR
70
6
Ono no Komachi
"Doesn't he realize..."
71
1
Stephen Spencer
Word
71
1
Robert Francis
Pitcher
71
1
X. J. Kennedy
Ars Poetica
72
1
Louise Gluck
Cottonmouth Country
72
1
George Barker
Sonnet to My Mother
72
1
Margaret Atwood
"You fit into me"
73
1
Emily Dickinson
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass"
73
1
Marge Piercy
You don't understand me
74
1
Adrienne Rich
Moving in Winter
74
1
W. S. Merwin
Inscription Facing Western Sea
75
1
Wallace Stevens
The Motive for Metaphor
75
1
METAPHOR AS A BASIS FOR THOUGHT
76
12
George Lakoff
Mark Johnson
from Metaphors We Live By
76
12
METAPHORICAL CONCEPTS
88
16
Robert W. Keidel
A New Game for Managers to Play
88
3
Susan Sontag
from AIDS and Its Metaphors
91
13
ARGUING WITH METAPHOR: ANALOGY AND PARABLE
104
16
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Abortion and Ethics
104
16
METAPHOR AND METONYMY: ADVERTISING
120
9
"Light My Lucky"
121
1
"Finally, Life Insurance as Individual as You Are"
122
3
Vista
125
4
3. TEXTS AND OTHER TEXTS
129
80
INTERTEXTUALITY
130
7
Text (1) Judges 16: Samson
132
1
John Milton
Text (2) from Samson Agonistes
133
2
Text (3) Nike Advertisement
135
2
TRANSFORMING TEXTS (1)
137
5
Raymond Queneau
from Transformations
137
5
TRANSFORMING TEXTS (2)
142
18
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Hansel and Gretel
142
5
Robert Coover
Transformation (1) The Gingerbread House
147
9
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Transformation (2) The Little Brother and the Little Sister
156
4
COMPLETING TEXTS: THE READER'S WORK
160
12
James Joyce
The Boarding House
163
5
Dorothy Parker
You Were Perfectly Fine
168
4
INTERPRETING TEXTS
172
14
Jack Zipes
The Politics of Fairy Tales
175
3
Bruno Bettelheim
Hansel and Gretel
178
8
IDENTIFYING WITH TEXTS
186
23
Russell Banks
Bambi: A Boy's Story
187
7
Woody Allen
from Play It Again, Sam
194
6
Robert B. Ray
from The Culmination of Classic Hollywood: Casablanca
200
9
4. EXPERIMENTS WITH TEXTS: FRAGMENTS AND SIGNATURES
209
66
THE FRAGMENT
211
9
Roland Barthes
from A Lover's Discourse
212
8
REFERENCES FOR FRAGMENTS OF A STUDENT'S DISCOURSE
220
20
Maya Angelou
Graduation
221
9
Lionel Trilling
from Of This Time, of That Place
230
10
THE SIGNATURE
240
16
WHAT'S IN A NAME
241
1
William Shakespeare
from Romeo and Juliet
241
1
THE HISTORY OF NAMES
242
1
A. A. Roback
Names and Professions, from Destiny in Names
242
2
THE POWER OF NAMES
244
1
Ralph Ellison
from Hidden Name and Complex Fate
245
4
Dale Spender
The Male Line, from Man Made Language
249
2
WRITING FROM SIGNATURES
251
1
James Joyce
Shem the Penman, from Finnegans Wake
252
4
SIGNING (THE PROPER NAME)
256
19
Jacques Derrida
from Glas
258
4
James Michael Jarrett
A Jarrett in Your Text
262
13
5. EXPERIMENTS WITH TEXTS: TEXT AND RESEARCH
275
38
MYSTORY
277
36
ARCHIVE FOR A MYSTORICAL METHOD
279
1
Michel Leiris
from The Autobiographer as Torero
279
3
Eunice Lipton
History of an Encounter
282
6
Susan Howe
Incloser
288
10
Salvador Dali
from How to Become Paranoia-Critical
298
4
N. Scott Momaday
from The Way to Rainy Mountain
302
11
Index
313