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Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock

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  • Author: Tom Cohen, State University of New York, Albany
  • Date Published: September 1994
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521460132

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  • The material elements of writing have long been undervalued, and have been dismissed by recent historicising trends of criticism; but analysis of these elements - sound, signature, letters - can transform our understanding of literary texts. In this 1994 book Tom Cohen shows how, in an era of representational criticism and cultural studies, the role of close reading has been overlooked. Arguing that much recent criticism has been caught in potentially regressive models of representation, Professor Cohen undertakes to counter this by rethinking the 'materiality' of the text itself. Through a series of revealing new readings of the work of writers including Plato, Bakhtin, Poe, Whitman and Conrad, Professor Cohen exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism, and demonstrates how 'the materiality of language' operates to undo the representational models of meaning imposed by the literary canon.

    • Challenging and revealing readings of work of major writers
    •  Refocuses attention away from representational criticism and cultural studies onto close reading/'materiality'
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    • Date Published: September 1994
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521460132
    • length: 282 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19 mm
    • weight: 0.51kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction: the legs of sense
    Part I. Dialogue and Inscription:
    1. Othello, Bakhtin and the death(s) of dialogue
    2. P.s.: Plato's scene of reading in the Protagoras
    Part II. Parables of Exteriority - Materality in 'Classic' American Texts:
    3. Too legit to quit: the dubious genealogies of pragmatism
    4. Poe's Foot d'Or: ruinous rhyme and Nietzschean recurrence (sound)
    5. Only the dead know Brooklyn ferry (voice)
    6. The letters of the law: 'Bartleby' as hypogrammatic romance (letters)
    Part III. Pre-Posterous Modernisms:
    7. Conrad's fault (signature)
    8. Miss Emily, c'est moi: the defacement of modernism in Faulkner (inscription and social form)
    9. Hitchcock and the death of (Mr.) Memory (technology of the visible)
    Coda: post-humanist reading.

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    Tom Cohen, State University of New York, Albany

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