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9780195057218

The Romance of Failure First-Person Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James

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    9780195057218

  • ISBN10:

    019505721X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1989-04-27
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "Proper Identity" and the First Personp. 3
Disfiguring the Perfect Plot: Doubling and Self-Betrayal in Poep. 20
Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance and the Death of Enchantmentp. 71
The Jamesian Critical Romancep. 118
Afterwordp. 172
Notesp. 177
Indexp. 197
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