| The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James Contributor(s): Auerbach, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 019505721X ISBN-13: 9780195057218 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $61.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1989 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.309 |
| LCCN: 88012634 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.84" W x 8.78" (0.99 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |