Facing Texts : Encounters Between Contemporary Writers and Critics

Ziegler, Heide

ISBN 10: 0822308185 / ISBN 13: 9780822308188

Editore: Duke University Press, 1988

Codice articolo 202860-n

Riassunto:

This selection of fiction by many of America's best writers, each coupled with a distinguished critic's response, is designed to defy the chronological secondariness of critical interpretation. During the creation of this book the majority of the contributions, chosen by the writers themselves, were as yet unpublished, providing an unmediated encounter between author and critic. Every reader extends what editors, authors, and critics have begun by adding to the imaginary space in which all texts may be woven together. This process serves as metaphor for the changing nature of any latter-day encounter with one's own literary tradition. The interfacing of texts not only illuminates the fiction, and the relationship of fiction to critics, but also informs our conceptions of text, criticism, and fiction itself.

Product Description: Near fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 301 pages; Description: x, 301 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: American fiction--20th century. American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

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Titolo: Facing Texts : Encounters Between ...
Casa editrice: Duke University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1988
Legatura: Brossura
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