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 words2454733UNINA00734nam0 22002171i 450 UON0018892920251113033128.17620030730d1979 |0itac50 baitaIT|||| |||||Stato e capitaleSuzanne De BrunhoffMilanoFeltrinelli1979165 p.18 cm.De BrunhoffSuzanneUONV110386ITSOL20251114RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00188929SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI N 0048 SI SC 12455 5 0048 Stato e capitale297340UNIOR