Date of Award
2007
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English Composition
Department
English
First Advisor
Page, Phillip
Second Advisor
Chen, Rong
Third Advisor
Rhodes, Jacqueline
Abstract
This thesis looks at how Wideman takes advantage of the associative function of metaphor, creating a vast network, or web, or interconnected images. In deviating from linguistic norms, and growing steadily from page to page, this web causes the novel to appear symbolic. It also appears to have a symbolic meaning of its own, possibly representing the intricate social and spiritual connections that comprise the novel's fictional community of Homewood.
Recommended Citation
Kilpatrick, Joel Wesley, "The beaded web: Metaphor and association in John Edgar Wideman's Sent for you yesterday" (2007). Theses Digitization Project. 3207.
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3207
