Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock (Paperback, New)

The material elements of writing have long been undervalued; but analysis of these elements--sound, signature, letters--can transform our understanding of major texts. Tom Cohen argues in this book that in an era of representational criticism the role of close reading has been overlooked. Through astonishing new readings of writers such as Plato, Bakhtin, Poe, Whitman, and Conrad, Professor Cohen exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism, and demonstrates how the "materiality of language" challenges representational models of meaning imposed by the canon.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Literature, Culture, Theory
Release date:	September 1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	Tom Cohen
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	284
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-46584-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
LSN:	0-521-46584-2
Barcode:	9780521465847

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