Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock (Literature, Culture, Theory)

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Tom Cohen

页数:284

出版时间:1994-09-08

价格:USD 26.47

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521465847

具体描述

The material elements of writing have long been undervalued; but analysis of these elements--sound, signature, letters--can transform our understanding of major texts. Tom Cohen argues in this book that in an era of representational criticism the role of close reading has been overlooked. Through astonishing new readings of writers such as Plato, Bakhtin, Poe, Whitman, and Conrad, Professor Cohen exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism, and demonstrates how the "materiality of language" challenges representational models of meaning imposed by the canon.