Tom Cohen

Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock

Herausgeber: Cascardi, Anthony; Macksey, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Revisionary readings of literary texts and theories through analysis of sound, signature, and letters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780521465847
• ISBN-10: 0521465842
• Artikelnr.: 22091607

Inhaltsangabe

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.