Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Metaphor and the English Studies Curriculum
Part One. Paradox
Aberrant Figures: Composition andthe “Teaching” of Metaphor
Higher Learning: Reading (for) Metaphor in the Literature Class
Part Two. Possibility
Literal Fictions: Equivalence, Di.erence, 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