The romance of failure : first-person fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James / Jonathan Auerbach.

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Auerbach, Jonathan, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.Description: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1602566003
9781602566002
9780195345254
0195345258
9780195057218
019505721X
128052376X
9781280523762

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Romance of failure.DDC classification:

813/.3/09353 22

LOC classification:

PS374.F24 A94 1989eb

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Contents:

Introduction: "Proper Identity" and the First Person; 1. Disfiguring the Perfect Plot: Doubling and Self-Betrayal in Poe; 2. Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance and the Death of Enchantment; 3. The Jamesian Critical Romance; Afterword; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Summary: 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 come to be made, and the relation between these plots and the people who make them.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index.

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 come to be made, and the relation between these plots and the people who make them.