Nobody's Home : Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo.

Nobody's Home is a bold view of the American novel from its beginnings to the contemporary scene. Focusing on some of the deepest instincts of American life and culture--individual liberty, freedom of speech, constructing a life--Arnold Weinstein brilliantly sketches the remarkable career ofthe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weinstein, Arnold
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Temas:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Language and culture > United States.
Freedom of speech in literature.
Speech in literature.
Home in literature.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Langage et culture > États-Unis.
Liberté d'expression dans la littérature.
Parole dans la littérature.
Foyer dans la littérature.
American fiction
Freedom of speech in literature
Home in literature
Language and culture
Self in literature
Speech in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Nobody's Home is a bold view of the American novel from its beginnings to the contemporary scene. Focusing on some of the deepest instincts of American life and culture--individual liberty, freedom of speech, constructing a life--Arnold Weinstein brilliantly sketches the remarkable career ofthe American self in some of the major works of the past one hundred fifty years. Weinstein contends that American writers are haunted by the twin specters of the self as a mirage, as Nobody, and by the brutal forces of culture and ideology that deny selfhood to people on the basis of money, sex, and color o.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (362 pages)
ISBN:9780195344820
0195344820

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