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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weinstein, Arnold
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Self-Making and Freedom of Speech; I: OUTCASTS OF THE UNIVERSE; 1. Hawthorne's ""Wakefield"" and the Art of Self-Possession; 2. Melville: Knowing Bartleby; II: MASTERS AND SLAVES; 3. Stowe: Ghosting in Uncle Tom's Cabin; 4. Twain: The Twinning Principle in Puddn'head Wilson; III: THE VILLAGE MODERNISTS; 5. Anderson: The Play of Winesburg, Ohio; 6. Flannery O'Connor and the Art of Displacement; IV: THE AMERICAN MODERNISTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH; 7. Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby: Fiction as Greatness; 8. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: The Voice from the Coffin.
  • 9. Faulkner: Fusion and Confusion in Light in August10. Hemingway's Garden of Eden: The Final Combat Zone; V: THE AMERICAN POSTMODERNISTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH; 11. John Hawkes, Skin Trader; 12. Robert Coover: Fiction as Fission; 13. Dis-Membering and Re-Membering in Toni Morrison's Beloved; 14. Don DeLillo: Rendering the Words of the Tribe; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.