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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Parker, Hershel. Flawed texts and verbal icons. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c1984 (OCoLC)560675120 |
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| 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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