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Flawed texts and verbal icons : literary authority in American fiction
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Flawed texts and verbal icons : literary authority in American fiction

Author: Hershel Parker
Publisher: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©1984.
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Parker, Hershel.
Flawed texts and verbal icons.
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c1984
(OCoLC)560675120
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hershel Parker
ISBN: 0810106663 9780810106666 0810106671 9780810106673
OCLC Number: 11362604
Notes: Cover title: Flawed texts & verbal icons.
Description: xix, 249 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: ch. 1. Lost authority and cheap thrills --
ch. 2. The determinacy of the creative process and the authority of the author's belated textual decisions --
ch. 3. The authority of the editor and his formula: textual theory and practice since "bibliography and the novelistic fallacy" --
ch. 4. The authority of the revised text and the disappearance of the author: what critics of Henry James did with textual evidence in the heyday of the new criticism --
ch. 5. Pudd'nhead Wilson: jack-leg author, unreadable text, and sense-making critics --
ch. 6. The red badge of courage: the private history of a campaign that -succeeded? --
ch. 7. Norman Mailer's revision of the Esquire version of An American dream: the authority of "built-in" intentionality --
Conclusion: Textual evidence and the current practice of theory.
Other Titles: Flawed texts & verbal icons.
Responsibility: Hershel Parker.

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