Nobody's home : speech, self, and place in American fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo /

In Nobody's Home, Arnold Weinstein defies the current trends of cultural studies and postmodern criticism to create a sweeping account of American fiction. From Hawthorne's "Wakefield" to Don deLillo's novels, the book pursues the idea of freedom of speech in the work of Ame...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weinstein, Arnold L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : 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.
Place (Philosophy) 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.
Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
Foyer dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction.
Language and culture.
Zelf.
Recht van meningsuiting.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
United States.
English fiction
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hawthorne's "Wakefield" and the art of self-possession
  • Melville : knowing Bartleby
  • Stowe : ghosting in Uncle Tom's cabin
  • Twain : the twinning principle in Puddn'head Wilson
  • Anderson : the play of Winesburg, Ohio
  • Flannery O'Connor and the art of displacement
  • Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby : fiction as greatness
  • Faulkner's As I lay dying : the voice from the coffin
  • Faulkner : fusion and confusion in Light in August
  • Hemingway's Garden of Eden : the final combat zone
  • John Hawkes, skin trader
  • Robert Coover : fiction as fission
  • Dis-membering and re-membering in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • Don DeLillo : rendering the words of the tribe.

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