The Subjectivity Effect in Western Literary Tradition: Essays Toward the Release of Shakespeare's Will

by Joel Fineman

Book Overview

Joel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called "making strange." His essays are among the strongest demonstrations of how structures-whether linguistic, visual, or architectural-generate large and elaborate systems of meaning. Using examples drawn from literature-Chaucer, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde-Fineman creates parables of how language has come to constitute...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262061368
• ISBN13: 9780262061360
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.