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Download or read book The Romance of Failure written by Jonathan Auerbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-04-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in the fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James in order to defend the beleaguered "I" in these works against the depersonalizing tendencies of postructuralism. In reaffirming the importance of the human subject for the study of narrative, Auerbach shows how the first person form, in particular, underscores fundamental problems of literary representation: how fictions come to be made, and the relation between these plots and the people who make them.