{"product_id":"anti-mimesis-from-plato-to-hitchcock-hardback-9780521460132","title":"Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock (Hardback) 9780521460132","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAnti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 2004 book contains revisionary readings of literary texts and theories through analysis of sound, signature, and letters.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTom Cohen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521460132, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 September 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...an excellent book, well worth reading and rereading--in posthumanist or other ways.\"   Cesare Casarino, American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: the legs of sense\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Dialogue and Inscription: 1. Othello, Bakhtin and the death(s) of dialogue\u003cbr\u003e 2. P.s.: Plato's scene of reading in the Protagoras\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Parables of Exteriority - Materality in 'Classic' American Texts: 3. Too legit to quit: the dubious genealogies of pragmatism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Poe's Foot d'Or: ruinous rhyme and Nietzschean recurrence (sound)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Only the dead know Brooklyn ferry (voice)\u003cbr\u003e 6. The letters of the law: 'Bartleby' as hypogrammatic romance (letters)\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Pre-Posterous Modernisms: 7. Conrad's fault (signature)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Miss Emily, c'est moi: the defacement of modernism in Faulkner (inscription and social form)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Hitchcock and the death of (Mr.) Memory (technology of the visible)\u003cbr\u003e Coda: post-humanist reading.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007536976152,"sku":"9780521460132","price":87.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521460132i_2f42502f-1f01-438d-a7ce-eb5fc8614cc6.jpg?v=1691382402","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/anti-mimesis-from-plato-to-hitchcock-hardback-9780521460132","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}