The romance of failure : first-person fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James /
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 subjec...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1989.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.