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

• Autore: Auerbach Jonathan <1954->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1989; ©1989
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.3/09353
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Failure (Psychology) in literature; First person narrative; Psychological fiction, American - History - Criticism and interpretation
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography: p. 177-196 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The romance of failure
• ISBN: 1-280-52376-X; 0-19-534525-8; 1-60256-600-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819727903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II