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Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock

Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock

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Series: Literature, Culture, Theory, Book 10

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521465842
ISBN13: 9780521465847
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 8 1994
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.41 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
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.

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