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PITTSBURGH SERIES IN COMPOSITION, LITERACY, AND CULTURE “We are, I think, at the end of an era, not only in composition but in English studies generally. . . . Not since the early s have people in English more keenly felt the need for fresh perspectives . And fresh perspectives, among other things, is what this book has to offer. Quite apart from its innovations in the theory of metaphor, Seitz’s argument deserves a wide readership because of the new horizons it opens on teaching and research.” —Kurt Spellmeyer, Rutgers University T   English has become ever more balkanized as the twentieth century comes to a close. Motives for Metaphor imagines ways in which the three English camps—composition, literature, and creative writing—can reconnect through a reconception of that most common figure of speech, the metaphor. As perhaps the most radical (yet also quotidian) means by which language negotiates difference, metaphor can also help us to think further about the politics of identification and the curricular movements such a politics has inspired. Drawing upon a wide variety of resources—from literary criticism , composition theory, and analytic philosophy, to rhetorical textbooks, student papers, and postmodern metafictions—Seitz suggests that only through transforming the very structure and purpose of the English department curriculum can teachers of composition, literature, and creative writing still build a shared pedagogical project. Motives for Metaphor proposes what such a transformation might consist of in the years ahead. J E. S 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 graduate and undergraduate courses in composition, literature, and literacy education. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Pittsburgh, Pa. 15261 COVER DESIGN: CHIQUITA BABB SEITZ MOTIVES FOR METAPHOR ISBN 0-8229-5692-6 ,!7IA8C2-jfgjcb! ...

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