dc.contributor.advisor | Hartman, James | |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, Erin Ann | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-26T21:11:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-26T21:11:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-05-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11515 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10430 | |
dc.description.abstract | Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory and John Bender and David E. Wellbery's description of rhetoricality, I offer a reconceptualization of literature as a conceptual metaphorization of the experience of the cognitive concept of LIFE. I demonstrate the value of such a rhetoricized reconceptualization of literature and literary study by applying them to four American autobiographies written after 1970: Bill Clinton's My Life, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Audre Lorde's Zami, and Walter Dean Myers' Autobiography of my Dead Brother. I also speculate about what a rhetoricized English studies in contemporary American higher education - one that sees (what Pierre Bourdieu describes as) heteronomy rather than autonomy as its primary organizing principle - might entail. | |
dc.format.extent | 211 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Language | |
dc.subject | Linguistics | |
dc.subject | Autobiography | |
dc.subject | Conceptual metaphor theory | |
dc.subject | Life writing | |
dc.subject | Metaphor | |
dc.subject | Rhetoric | |
dc.subject | Rhetoric and composition | |
dc.title | Literary Reality: Rhetoricizing Literature and English Studies | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Anatol, Giselle | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | English | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 7642952 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |