Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock

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by Tom Cohen

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published October 1994, 280 pages, paper

ISBN 0521465842

Cohen argues in this book that in an era of representational criticism the role of close reading has been overlooked. Through readings of writers such as Plato, Bakhtin, Poe, Whitman, and Conrad, Cohen exposes the limitations of new historicism and neo-pragmatism, and demonstrates how the materiality of language challenges representational models of meaning imposed by the canon.