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Novels affirm the power of fiction to portray the horizons of knowledge and to dramatize the ways that the truths of human existence are created and preserved. Professor Saldivar shows that deconstructive readings of novels remind us that we do not apprehend the world directly but through interpretive codes. Originally published in 1984. The Prin



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xi*Chapter One. Rhetoric and the Figures of Form: Peirce, Nietzsche, and the Novel, pg. 1*Chapter Two. In Quest of Authority: Cervantes, Don Quijote, and the Grammar of Proper Language, pg. 25*Chapter Three. The Rhetoric of Desire: Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, pg. 72*Chapter Four. The Apotheosis of Subjectivity: Performative and Constative in Melville's Moby-Dick, pg. 110*Chapter Five. Reading the Letter of the Law: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, pg. 156*Chapter Six. The Flowers of Speech: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, pg. 182*Afterword, pg. 249*Index, pg. 259

Figural Language in the Novel

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 14 July 2014
      ISBN-13 9780691612713
      978-0691612713
      ISBN-10 0691612714
      Also in:
      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Literary studies: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Novels affirm the power of fiction to portray the horizons of knowledge and to dramatize the ways that the truths of human existence are created and preserved. Professor Saldivar shows that deconstructive readings of novels remind us that we do not apprehend the world directly but through interpretive codes. Originally published in 1984. The Prin



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xi*Chapter One. Rhetoric and the Figures of Form: Peirce, Nietzsche, and the Novel, pg. 1*Chapter Two. In Quest of Authority: Cervantes, Don Quijote, and the Grammar of Proper Language, pg. 25*Chapter Three. The Rhetoric of Desire: Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, pg. 72*Chapter Four. The Apotheosis of Subjectivity: Performative and Constative in Melville's Moby-Dick, pg. 110*Chapter Five. Reading the Letter of the Law: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, pg. 156*Chapter Six. The Flowers of Speech: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, pg. 182*Afterword, pg. 249*Index, pg. 259

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