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Article: This Mad "Instead": Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction.(Review)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Arthur Saltzman. This Mad "Instead": Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction. Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2000. 232 pp. $39.95.
Metaphor is the holy grail of literary art--an intriguing amalgam calling attention to itself not only as a carefully crafted linguistic prize but also as a mysterious and elusive truth. Arthur Saltzman's This Mad "Instead": Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction examines the successes and failures contemporary novelists meet when using metaphor in the construction of their fictional worlds. Saltzman begins with the notion that "language is an especially suspicious artistic medium and must be frisked for the ...