Anti-mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock
This 2004 book contains a series of readings of the work of major writers. Tom Cohen shows how analysis of long-undervalued material elements of writing - sound, signature, letters - exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism, and transforms our understanding of literary texts.
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 266 pages ; 23 cm.
9780521460132, 9780521465847, 0521460131, 0521465842
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Introduction: The legs of sense
pt. I. Dialogue and inscription. 1. Othello, Bakhtin and the death(s) of dialogue. 2. P.s.: Plato's scene of reading in the Protagoras
pt. II. Parables of exteriority: materiality 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)
pt. 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