The material elements of writing have long been undervalued, and
have been dismissed by recent historicising trends of criticism;
but analysis of these elements - sound, signature, letters - can
transform our understanding of literary texts. In this 1994 book
Tom Cohen shows how, in an era of representational criticism and
cultural studies, the role of close reading has been overlooked.
Arguing that much recent criticism has been caught in potentially
regressive models of representation, Professor Cohen undertakes to
counter this by rethinking the 'materiality' of the text itself.
Through a series of revealing new readings of the work of writers
including Plato, Bakhtin, Poe, Whitman and Conrad, Professor Cohen
exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism, and
demonstrates how 'the materiality of language' operates to undo the
representational models of meaning imposed by the literary canon.
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