Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock

by Tom Cohen

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521465842
• ISBN13: 9780521465847
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"