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

By Jonathan Auerbach

Book information

Year
1989
ISBN
019505721X, 9780195057218, 9781423734505
LCC
PS374.F24 A94 1989
Open Library ID
OL2036445M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11015047 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
216\212
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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