The Romance of Failure : The First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
019505721X
ISBN-13
9780195057218
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 27th, 1989
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
455 grams
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21.90 x 14.90 x 2.00 cms
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This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in these authors' fictions, in order to defend the beleaguered "I" in these works against the depersonalizing tendencies of post-structuralism.
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.
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