Figural Language in the Novel / / Ramon Saldivar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Saldivar, Ramon,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 581
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

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 Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

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