Includes bibliographical references (p. 376) and index.
1. Texts as Representation
Story and Storyteller
Mary Louise Pratt, Natural Narrative
For Discussion and Writing: Telling and Writing Anecdotes
The "Literary" Anecdote
Walter Benjamin, Ordnance
Patricia J. Williams, Polar Bears
*Paul Auster, Tell Me a Story
Storm Jameson, Departures
*Brent Staples, Blake
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing Anecdotes
The Short Story
Kate Chopin, The Kiss
For Discussion and Writing: Comparing "Natural" and "Literary" Narratives
William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
For Discussion and Writing: Evaluating and Interpreting Anecdote and Story
*Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father
For Discussion and Writing: What makes a "Good Story"?
Character and Confrontation
*Susan Glaspell, Trifles
For Discussion and Writing: Staging and Writing Drama
Kate Chopin, dialogue from The Kiss
For Discussion and Writing: Changing Dialogue to Drama
Erving Goffman, Character Contests
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing and Writing Character Contests
August Strindberg, The Stronger
For Discussion and Writing: Revising a Character Contest
Martin Esslin, from Aristotle and the Advertisers: The Television Commercial as Drama
*AIG: The Greatest Risk Is Not Taking One
For Discussion and Writing:Reversals and Recognitions
Representation and Its Complications
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Film of Familiarity
*Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Veil of Familiarity
*Victor Shklovsky, Defamiliarization
For Discussion and Writing: The Familiar and the Unfamiliar
*Man Ray, 221 Boulevard Raspail
*René Magritte, Personal Values
*Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
*W. S. Merwin, Tool
*E. E. Cummings, r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
2. Texts, Thoughts, and Things
The Linguistic Basis of Metaphor
Roger Brown, What Words Are: Reference and Categories
For Discussion and Writing: Defining Categories
Roger Brown, What Words Are: Metaphor
Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder
For Discussion and Writing: Defining Metaphor
Metaphor in Three Poems
W. S. Merwin, Separation
For Discussion and Writing: Metaphor and the Unexpected
W. H. Auden, Let Us Honor...
For Discussion and Writing: Modifying Metaphor
Sylvia Plath, Metaphors
For Discussion and Writing: Making Metaphors
Metaphor and Dream
Sigmund Freud, from Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
*Tony Crisp, Getting to Work on Your Dream
*Julia and Derek Parker, Symbolism
For Discussion and Writing: Interpreting the Defamiliarized World
*Edward Hopper, Night Shadows
*Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealist Versailles
*Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
Surrealist Metaphor
*André Breton, Surrealist Images
For Discussion and Writing: Comparing Terms: Freud and Breton
*André Breton, Surrealist Methods
For Discussion and Writing: Constructing and Analyzing a Random Assemblage
Poetic Uses of Metaphor
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing the Work of Metaphors in Poetry
Ono No Kamachi, Doesn't He Realize...
John Donne, The Flea
Stephen Spender, Word
Robert Francis, Pitcher
Margaret Atwood, You fit into me
Marge Piercy, You don't understand me
Adrienne Rich, Moving in Winter
*Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death
*Theodore Roethke, Dolor
*W. S. Merwin, Coming to the Morning
*Edna St. Vincent Millay, Spring
*Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Metaphor As a Basis for Thought
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Concepts We Live By
For Discussion and Writing: Using Metaphorical Concepts
Metaphorical Concepts
Robert W. Keidel, A New Game for Managers to Play
For Discussion and Writing: Using Sports Metaphors
Susan Sontag, from AIDS and Its Metaphors
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing Metaphors of Disease
Arguing with Metaphor: Analogy and Ideology
*Emily Martin, The Egg and the Sperm
For Discussion and Writing: Arguing About Metaphors in Science
Hidden Meaning: Parables and Allegory
*The Gospel of Mark, The Parables of Jesus
*Franz Kafka, On Parables and Before the Law
*Jorge Luis Borges, Borges and I and Ragnarök
Italo Calvino, Cities and Memory: Isidora and Continuous Cities: Cecilia
John Barth, Night-Sea Journey
For Discussion and Wrting: Composing Parables
Metaphor And Metonymy: Advertising
Vista
productbuzz
NEUVIS
For Discussion and Writing: Comparing and Analyzing Metaphoric and Metonymic Qualities in Advertising
3. Texts and Other Texts
Intertextuality
Book of Judges, Samson
John Milton, From Samson Agonistes
Nike Advertisement, Samson
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing a Textual Network
Transforming Texts (1)
Raymond Queneau, from Transformations
For Discussion and Writing: Making Your Own Transformations
Transforming Texts (2): Sleeping Beauties
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Thorn-rose (Briar-rose): The Manuscript
Version
*Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Thorn-rose (Briar-rose): from Grimm's Fairy Tales, 6th Edition
*Charles Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty (La belle au bois dormant)
*Robert Coover, Five Sections from Briar Rose
For Discussion and Writing: Comparing Versions and Transforming Tales
Completing Texts: The Reader's Work
*Ernest Hemingway, Up in Michigan
For Discussion and Writing: Defining Love: Writing the Reader's Work
*Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible
For Discussion and Writing: Cultural Knowledge and Cultural Icons
Identifying with Texts
Robert Ray, The Culmination of Classic Hollywood: Casablanca
Woody Allen, from Play It Again, Sam
Russell Banks, Bambi, A Boy's Story
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing Films: Intertexts, Ideologies, Icons
On Interpretation
For Discussion and Writing: Proposing Your Own Theory of Literary Interpretation
*Frank Kermode, The Purpose of Parables
*Susan Sontag, Interpretation as Interference
*Umberto Eco, The Intention of the Text
Interpreting Texts
*Bruno Bettelheim, The Sleeping Beauty
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing a Freudian Interpretation
*Francine Prose, On "Sleeping Beauty"
For Discussion and Writing: Reading and Making a Cultural Critique
*Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes, Interpreting "Up in Michigan"
For Discussion and Writing: Considering Intention and Interpretation
*Robert Scholes, Interpreting "Pitcher"
For Discussion and Writing: Interpreting a Poem
Text And Hypertext
4. Texts and Research: The Mystory
Mystory
* Lewy Olfson, ed. The Sorrows of Young Werther (plot outline)
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from The Sorrows of Young Werther
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing the Tutor Text: Werther
*from Reflections on Werther
The Fragment
Roland Barthes, from A Lover's Discourse
For Discussion and Writing: Composing an Identification
Archive: Texts of Identification
*Connie Porter, Rapunzel across Time and Space
For Discussion and Writing: Emblamatizing Identity
Eunice Lipton, History of an Encounter
For Discussion and Writing: Encountering Exemplary Histories
N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain
For Discussion and Writing: Creating Patterns across Discourse
*Susan Griffin, from A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
For Discussion and Writing: Researching Recognition
The Signature
William Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet (II.ii. 33-61)
For Discussion and Writing: Naming Names
A. A. Roback, Names and Professions
For Discussion and Writing: Imagining Names
The Power of Names
Ralph Ellison, from Hidden Name and Complex Fate
Dale Spender, from Man Made Language
For Discussion and Writing: Changing Names
Writing from Signatures
James Joyce, Shem the Penman
* Jane Morgan, Christopher O'Neil, and Rom Harré, Nicknames: Their Origins and Social Consequences
For Discussion and Writing: Exploring the Name from Crest to Nickname
Signing: (The Proper Name)
Jacques Derrida, From Glas
For Discussion and Writing: Devising the Portrait
Archive: The Play of the Text
*Lawson Fusao Inada, Making it Stick
For Discussion and Writing: Popularizing Cultural Forms
*Nicholas Paley, Everyone Is Welcome
For Discussion and Writing: Stretching a Story
*Derek Pell, The Revolver: A Textual Transformation
FDW: Transforming the Historical Document
*A. C. Evans, from There are Many Roads to Space
FDW: Testing the Cut-Up
*John Cage, Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake
FDW: Messing with Mesotics
*Susan Howe, Submarginalia