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The open book : creative misreading in the works of selected modern writers
- Title
- The open book : creative misreading in the works of selected modern writers / Margaret M. Jensen.
- Author
- Jensen, Margaret M., 1963-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR881 .J46 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 235 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "The Open Book is a provocative study of literary influence and intertextual relations which brings considerable light to the textual and personal negotiations among five major writers: Leslie Stephen, Thomas Hardy, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf. Jensen reimagines the links between text and context as she endeavors to historicize literary indebtedness 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 them alongside the works of these five writers.
- The Open Book thus 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."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Creative misreading in the works of selected modern writers
- Subject
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Criticism and interpretation
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 > Criticism and interpretation
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Woolf, Virginia
- Hardy, Thomas
- Mansfield, Katherine
- Stephen, Leslie
- Murry, John Middleton
- 1900-1999
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Reader-response criticism
- English fiction
- Intertextualität
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-226) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Palimpsest: Gratitude and Subterfuge: The dynamics of (inter)textual relations -- Ch. 2. A Case Study: The Strange Case of Thomas Hardy and Sir Leslie Stephen -- Ch. 3. Three's a Crowd: Historicizing Influence among Thomas Hardy, John Middleton Murry, and Katherine Mansfield -- Ch. 4. Mother/Muse, Psychic/Sister?: The Personal and Intertextual Connections between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield -- Ch. 5. Ghost Story: Intertextual Hauntings: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Thomas Hardy -- Ch. 6. Ambivalence: Virginia Woolf's Biographies of Leslie Stephen -- Conclusion: Fish in a Stream or Spider in a Web?
- ISBN
- 0312293534
- 9780312293536
- LCCN
- 2002020724
- 9780312293536
- OCLC
- ocm48943854
- 48943854
- SCSB-1256155
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library