Anti-Mimesis From Plato to Hitchcock

Klappentext Tom Cohen shows how! in an era of representational criticism and cultural studies! the role of close reading has been overlooked. Zusammenfassung This 2004 book contains a series of readings of the work of major writers. Tom Cohen shows how analysis of long-undervalued material elements of writing - sound! signature! letters - exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism! and transforms our understanding of literary texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the legs of sense; Part I. Dialogue and Inscription: 1. Othello, Bakhtin and the death(s) of dialogue; 2. P.s.: Plato's scene of reading in the Protagoras; Part II. Parables of Exteriority - Materality in 'Classic' American Texts: 3. Too legit to quit: the dubious genealogies of pragmatism; 4. Poe's Foot d'Or: ruinous rhyme and Nietzschean recurrence (sound); 5. Only the dead know Brooklyn ferry (voice); 6. The letters of the law: 'Bartleby' as hypogrammatic romance (letters); Part III. Pre-Posterous Modernisms: 7. Conrad's fault (signature); 8. Miss Emily, c'est moi: the defacement of modernism in Faulkner (inscription and social form); 9. Hitchcock and the death of (Mr.) Memory (technology of the visible); Coda: post-humanist reading.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Cohen
• Assisted by: Anthony Cascardi (Editor), Richard Macksey (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.1994
• EAN: 9780521465847
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46584-7
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory; Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies