Difference between revisions of "Textual metaphors in realist method"

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  • Newman Noggs's "face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech" (Dickens Nickleby 77 Penguin 86)
    • Actually a failure of this: "the countenance of Newman Noggs...was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve"
  • In a Piper way the sense that reference is to a bibliographical world so much as the actual world