Alone in America : the stories that matter /

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Robert A. Ferguson investigates the nature of loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. The theme is a vital one because a greater percentage of people live al...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-2017
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Temas:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Loneliness in literature.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Solitude dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Emotions.
American fiction
Loneliness in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle?
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal
  • Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change
  • Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat
  • Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown
  • Midpoint: the lords of life revisited
  • The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America
  • William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference
  • Saul Bellow observes old age
  • Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss
  • Walt Whitman finds the courage to be.

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