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

by Jonathan Auerbach

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019505721X

ISBN13:9780195057218

Release Date:April 1989

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Classics Gothic & Romantic Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods World Literature

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