TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auerbach,Jonathan
TI  - The romance of failure: first-person fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James 
SN  - 1602566003
AV  - PS374.F24 A94 1989eb
U1  - 813/.3/09353 22
PY  - 1989///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Poe, Edgar Allan,
KW  - Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
KW  - James, Henry,
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Failure (Psychology) in literature
KW  - First person narrative
KW  - Roman américain
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Échec dans la littérature
KW  - Récits à la première personne
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Fiction in English
KW  - American writers
KW  - Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
KW  - Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
KW  - James, Henry, 1843-1916
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index; 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
N2  - 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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