The Romance of Failure - Jonathan Auerbach

The Romance of Failure

The First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James
Buch | Hardcover
210 Seiten
1989
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-505721-8 (ISBN)
57,35 inkl. MwSt
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.
This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in the fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James: the narrator is both the central actor and the retrospective teller of his tale, at once hero and historian. Auerbach defends the beleaguered `I' in these works against the depersonalizing tendencies of post-structuralism. 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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.7.1989
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 145 x 224 mm
Gewicht 457 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-505721-X / 019505721X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-505721-8 / 9780195057218
Zustand Neuware
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