02812nam 2200613 a 450 991046351990332120200520144314.00-8173-8677-7(CKB)3170000000060497(EBL)1215887(SSID)ssj0000918042(PQKBManifestationID)11454507(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918042(PQKBWorkID)10895139(PQKB)11097364(MiAaPQ)EBC1215887(OCoLC)867739417(MdBmJHUP)muse25331(Au-PeEL)EBL1215887(CaPaEBR)ebr10723067(OCoLC)851316248(EXLCZ)99317000000006049720121210d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFighting words[electronic resource] polemics and social change in literary naturalism /Ira WellsTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20131 online resource (206 p.)Studies in American literary realism and naturalismDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1799-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Naturalism: a polemical introduction -- An education -- The polemical nature of naturalism in America -- Against the grain: ecology, environmentalism, and Frank Norris's The octopus -- Crimes of art and nature: an American tragedy and the problem of abortion -- "What I killed for, I am": domestic terror in Richard Wright's America -- Epilogue.Fighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters. Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism's much-touted concern with environmental and philosophical determinism, draws attention to the polemical essence of the genre and demonstrates how literary naturalists engaged instead with explosive political and cultural issues that remain fervently debated today. Naturalist writers, Wells argues in Fighting Words, are united less by a coherent philosophy than by an attitude, a posturAmer Lit Realism & NaturalismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismNaturalism in literatureSocial problems in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Naturalism in literature.Social problems in literature.810.9/12Wells Ira1981-1035188MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463519903321Fighting words2454733UNINA00860nam a2200229 i 4500991001574419707536030429s2002 it 001 0 ita b12166765-39ule_instBiblioteca InterfacoltàitaitaCatanzaro, Giuseppe 182222Manara Valgimigli e altri saggi /Giuseppe Catanzaro ; a cura di Peppino PellegrinoMilazzo :Spes,2002129 p. ;24 cmGiuseppe Catanzaro.Scritti ;2Pellegrino, Giuseppe.b1216676502-04-1429-04-03991001574419707536LE002 It. XXIV F 2612002000657190le002gE0.00-l- 00000.i1250632129-04-03Manara Valgimigli e altri saggi147693UNISALENTOle002 - - ma -itait 00