Romance of Failure - The First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James

Zusatztext 'his analyses of the individual stories! though illustrative of! and responsive to! his methodology! are also intelligent and richly suggestive in their own right'Keith Carabine! University of Kent! Notes and Queries Klappentext This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in the fictions of Poe! Hawthorne! and James in order to defend the beleaguered "I" in these works against the depersonalizing tendencies of postructuralism. In reaffirming the importance of the human subject for the study of narrative! Auerbach shows how the first person form! in particular! underscores fundamental problems of literary representation: how fictions come to be made! and the relation between these plots and the people who make them. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in these authors' fictions, in order to defend the beleaguered "I" in these works against the depersonalizing tendencies of post-structuralism.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Auerbach, Jonathan (Assistant Professor of English Auerbach
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.1989
• EAN: 9780195057218
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505721-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form