Failed text : literature and failure / edited by José Luis Martínez-Dueñas Espejo and Rocío G. Sumillera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martínez-Dueñas, José Luis, editor.

Sumillera, Rocío G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There are numerous ways to understand failure in literature: failure to produce a work of demonstrable literary merit, or failure to publish a work despite such merit; failure to see something translated, adapted or performed adequately, or indeed to see it translated, adapted or performed at all; failure to establish a connection with the contemporary reading public, failure to please critics, or to charm readers and hence the failure to achieve substantial sales. An author or a literary wor...

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; PART I: FAILURE IN LITERARY GENRES; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II: FAILURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III: FAILURE IN TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART IV: FAILURE IN RECEPTION; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6991-0

OCLC:

893739788