| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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; Y. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. (OCoLC)fst00030387
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James, Henry, 1843-1916. (OCoLC)fst00028686
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. (OCoLC)fst00032674
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Failure (Psychology) in literature.
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First person narrative.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
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Failure (Psychology) in literature. (OCoLC)fst00919848
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First person narrative. (OCoLC)fst00925781
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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| Indexed Term |
Fiction in English American writers Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. |
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Fiction in English American writers Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. |
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Fiction in English American writers James, Henry, 1843-1916. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Auerbach, Jonathan, 1954- Romance of failure. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989 (DLC) 88012634 |
| ISBN |
9780195345254 (electronic bk.) |
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0195345258 (electronic bk.) |
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