02917nam 2200649 450 991045012650332120200520144314.01-280-52376-X0-19-534525-81-60256-600-3(CKB)1000000000033333(EBL)241470(OCoLC)191038477(SSID)ssj0000239352(PQKBManifestationID)11175372(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239352(PQKBWorkID)10239038(PQKB)11268052(MiAaPQ)EBC4702757(MiAaPQ)EBC241470(Au-PeEL)EBL4702757(CaPaEBR)ebr11273717(OCoLC)191952725(EXLCZ)99100000000003333320161012h19891989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe romance of failure first-person fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James /Jonathan AuerbachNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1989.©19891 online resource (212 p.)Includes index.0-19-505721-X Includes bibliography: p. 177-196 and index.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; YThis 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. American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismFailure (Psychology) in literatureFirst person narrativePsychological fiction, AmericanHistoryCriticism and interpretationElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Failure (Psychology) in literature.First person narrative.Psychological fiction, AmericanHistoryCriticism and interpretation.813/.3/09353Auerbach Jonathan1954-901337MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450126503321The romance of failure2469339UNINA