Story-Shaped World

Brian Wicker was Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Birmingham.

• Introduction: Metaphor and Metaphysics in FictionPart One: Theoretical1 Metaphor and ‘Analogy’2 Metaphor and ‘Fiction’3 Metaphor and ‘Nature’4 Metaphor and ‘God’Notes to Part One Part Two: CriticalIntroductory5 Lawrence and the Unseen Presences6 Joyce and the Sense of an Ending7 Waugh and the Narrator as Dandy8 Beckett and the Death of the God-Narrator9 Robbe-Grillet and the One-Dimensional Novel10 Mailer and the Big Plot being hatched by NatureNotes to Part TwoConclusion BibliographyIndex