The Open Book | Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers

M. Jensen

ISBN 10: 1349634239 / ISBN 13: 9781349634231

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

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The Open Book | Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers | M. Jensen | Taschenbuch | xiii | Englisch | 2002 | Palgrave Macmillan | EAN 9781349634231 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Open Book | Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349634239
• ISBN 13: 9781349634231
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 14D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 322 grams
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

MARGARET M. JENSEN is a lecturer on nineteenth and twentieth century British Fiction and Kingston University. She is currently working on her first novel.