The open book : creative misreading in the works of selected modern writers / Margaret M. Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Margaret M., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Criticism and interpretation.

Hardy, Thomas.

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923--Criticism and interpretation.

Mansfield, Katherine.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Reader-response criticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 235 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-226) and index.

ISBN:

0312293534

OCLC:

48943854