| The Open Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Jensen, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312293534 ISBN-13: 9780312293536 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: "The Open Book" is a provocative study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. Jensen reimagines the links between text and context as she endeavors to historicize literary influence, by taking Bloomian "anxiety" and Kristevan "intertextuality" into fields of actual history and biography. Jensen both borrows from and deconstructs the ideas of thesetheorists as she reads the texts of Hardy, Stephen, Woolf, Mansfield, andMiddleton Murry. By doing so, "The Open Book" offers a fresh and pragmatic opening onto the relation between personal, cultural and institutional history on the one hand, and literary history on the other. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| LCCN: 2002020724 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.82" W x 8.52" (0.88 lbs) 235 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: The Open Book is a provocative study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. Jensen reimagines the links between text and context as she endeavors to historicize literary influence, by taking Bloomian 'anxiety' and Kristevan 'intertextuality' into fields of actual history and biography. Jensen both borrows from and deconstructs the ideas of these theorists as she reads the texts of Hardy, Stephen, Woolf, Mansfield, and Middleton Murry. By doing so, The Open Book offers a fresh and pragmatic opening onto the relation between personal, cultural and institutional history on the one hand, and literary history on the other. |