The Romance of Failure
First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James
Jonathan Auerbach
Price: £38.99 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505721-8
Publication date: 27 July 1989
216 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 mm
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| - ''Auerbach's discussion of the complexities involved is masterly.'
Times Higher Education Supplement' -
- ''his analyses of the individual stories, though illustrative of, and responsive to, his methodology, are also intelligent and richly suggestive in their own right'
Keith Carabine, University of Kent, Notes and Queries' -
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| Description | | This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in the fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James: the narrator is both the central actor and the retrospective teller of his tale, at once hero and historian. Auerbach defends the beleaguered `I' in these works against the depersonalizing tendencies of post-structuralism. 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. |
| Authors, editors,
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Jonathan Auerbach, Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland
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