“Literally Everything I Utter Is a Metaphor”: Thought Unhinged in The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, by Percival Everett

The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell are two of Percival Everett’s novels that most overtly intertwine literature and the philosophical. They do so not so much by promoting philosophical theories as by putting to the fore that the literary text is a mode of becoming, a gesture of th...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f9dd843872bd43889f8f95cce3b17e572021-12-02T10:14:18Z“Literally Everything I Utter Is a Metaphor”: Thought Unhinged in The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, by Percival Everett1765-276610.4000/transatlantica.15681https://doaj.org/article/f9dd843872bd43889f8f95cce3b17e572020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/15681https://doaj.org/toc/1765-2766The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell are two of Percival Everett’s novels that most overtly intertwine literature and the philosophical. They do so not so much by promoting philosophical theories as by putting to the fore that the literary text is a mode of becoming, a gesture of thought. By experimenting with language and form, these two novels participate in the advent of thought and meaning.Sylvie BauerAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesarticleEverett (Percival)American literaturephilosophical gesturefragmentsmeaningHistory AmericaE-FAmericaE11-143ENFRTransatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines, Vol 1 (2020)
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Sylvie Bauer
“Literally Everything I Utter Is a Metaphor”: Thought Unhinged in The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, by Percival Everett
description The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell are two of Percival Everett’s novels that most overtly intertwine literature and the philosophical. They do so not so much by promoting philosophical theories as by putting to the fore that the literary text is a mode of becoming, a gesture of thought. By experimenting with language and form, these two novels participate in the advent of thought and meaning.
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title “Literally Everything I Utter Is a Metaphor”: Thought Unhinged in The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, by Percival Everett
title_short “Literally Everything I Utter Is a Metaphor”: Thought Unhinged in The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, by Percival Everett
title_full “Literally Everything I Utter Is a Metaphor”: Thought Unhinged in The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, by Percival Everett
title_fullStr “Literally Everything I Utter Is a Metaphor”: Thought Unhinged in The Water Cure and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, by Percival Everett
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title_sort “literally everything i utter is a metaphor”: thought unhinged in the water cure and percival everett by virgil russell, by percival everett
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