03434nam 2200733Ia 450 991078508460332120230421044828.00-19-772549-X1-280-52662-90-19-534482-01-4294-0699-2(CKB)1000000000410798(EBL)272392(OCoLC)476010488(SSID)ssj0000211671(PQKBManifestationID)11174592(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211671(PQKBWorkID)10329865(PQKB)10658950(Au-PeEL)EBL272392(CaPaEBR)ebr10279226(CaONFJC)MIL52662(OCoLC)935260741(Au-PeEL)EBL2033514(OCoLC)252591857(MiAaPQ)EBC272392(EXLCZ)99100000000041079819990331d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNobody's home[electronic resource] speech, self, and place in American fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo /Arnold WeinsteinNew York Oxford University Press19931 online resource (362 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-507493-9 0-19-508022-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-342) and index.Contents; 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 Coffin9. 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; ZIn this broad-based study of American fiction, canonical and otherwise, Arnold Weinstein examines closely the strong ties between language, history and culture, with a particular focus on freedom of the self.American fictionHistory and criticismSelf in literatureLanguage and cultureUnited StatesFreedom of speech in literatureSpeech in literatureHome in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Self in literature.Language and cultureFreedom of speech in literature.Speech in literature.Home in literature.813.009Weinstein Arnold L107233MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785084603321Nobody's home3756639UNINA