TY - BOOK ID - 77902122 TI - Figural language in the novel : the flowers of speech from Cervantes to Joyce PY - 1984 SN - 1400856779 0691612714 9781400856770 9781306993807 1306993806 069106587X 9780691065878 9780691612713 PB - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Figures of speech. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Fiction KW - English language KW - Imagery KW - Speech, Figures of KW - Tropes KW - Rhetoric KW - Symbolism KW - Fiction writing KW - Metafiction KW - Writing, Fiction KW - Authorship KW - History. KW - History and criticism. KW - Technique. KW - Figures of speech KW - 82-31 KW - 82-31 Roman KW - Roman KW - History and criticism KW - Technique KW - History KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77902122 AB - 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. ER -