The Romance of Failure: First-person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and JamesOxford University Press, 1989 - 201 strani 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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Proper Identity and the First Person | 3 |
Doubling and SelfBetrayal in Poe | 20 |
2 Hawthornes The Blithedale Romance and the Death of Enchantment | 71 |
3 The Jamesian Critical Romance | 118 |
Afterword | 172 |
Notes | 177 |
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The Romance of Failure: First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James Jonathan Auerbach Omejen predogled - 1989 |
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