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

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2001
First published:	April 1989
Authors:	Jonathan Auerbach (Assistant Professor of English)
Dimensions:	224 x 145 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-505721-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-19-505721-X
Barcode:	9780195057218

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