DYKE, C., 1985. A Metaphorics of Fiction: Discontinuity and Discourse in the Modern Novel. 1985. JSTOR. page 
> If we think of modern criticism as divided between the (older) rhetorical school and the (newer) narratological, structuralist, deconstructivist school(s), then Singer is trying to show …
SINGER, Alan, 1983. A Metaphorics of Fiction: Discontinuity and Discourse in the Modern Novel. University Presses of Florida Tallahassee. page .
In particular (as the title states), he shows how deeper thinking about metaphor and its possibilities yields powerful techniques for dealing with just those aspects of modern narrative thought to be the exclusive province of the newer theories. As content, Singer is concerned with "… novelists from Sterne to Robbe-Grillet [who] have struggled to free themselves from the patriarchal fatalism …" of the determinations of the "Form-Giving Rule of Resemblances" that undergird traditional plot, character, and narrative technique.