Hot Property by Francoise Meltzer

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This text examines the anxiety of origins about the literary enterprise. Using case studies, Meltzer reveals the tenuous status of originality as a basic principle of the critical establishment. She shows how a threat to a writer's status as creator betrays the originality myth itself.

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Hot Property by Francoise Meltzer

This text examines the anxiety of origins about the literary enterprise. Using case studies, Meltzer reveals the tenuous status of originality as a basic principle of the critical establishment. She shows how a threat to a writer's status as creator betrays the originality myth itself.
Meltzer, Franü¾¶”¼oise: - Franü¾¶”¼oise Meltzer is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where she is also professor at the Divinity School and in the College. Meltzer is the author of five books, most recently of Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity, and a co-editor of the journal Critical Inquiry.
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ISBN 13 9780226519753
ISBN 10 0226519759
Title Hot Property
Author Francoise Meltzer
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 1994-03-01
Number of pages 179
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