Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality

by Françoise Meltzer

Book Overview

But is it original? The question, on which so much of writing stakes its claim to greatness, may be more interesting than the answer. In this provocative book, Francoise Meltzer takes a subtle and incisive look at the anxiety of origins at the heart of the literary enterprise. Using four case studies, Meltzer reveals the shaky status of originality as a founding principle of the critical establishment.

Freud, inventor of "dream work," turns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226519759
• ISBN13: 9780226519753
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"