![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mauled by reviewers, that book slowly became a classic, as Google Books shows, gratefully applied to their problems by biblical, classical, and medieval scholars as well as by critics of more modern literature. Parker’s 1984 Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction defied both the New Criticism and the New Bibliography in bringing biographical evidence to bear on textual theory, literary criticism, and literary theory. The Association of American Publishers gave its top award to the first volume in “Literature and Language” (1997) and to the second volume in a new category, “Biography and Autobiography” (2003)-apparently the only time it gave anyone the top award twice. Hershel Parker is the author of the 1997 Pulitzer finalist, Herman Melville: A Biography, 1819-1851 (Johns Hopkins, 1996) and its continuation, Herman Melville: A Biography, 1851-1891 (Johns Hopkins, 2002). ![]()
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