Nobody's home [[electronic resource] ] : speech, self, and place in American fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo / / Arnold Weinstein
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Weinstein Arnold L
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| Titolo: |
Nobody's home [[electronic resource] ] : speech, self, and place in American fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo / / Arnold Weinstein
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - History and criticism |
| Self in literature | |
| Language and culture - United States | |
| Freedom of speech in literature | |
| Speech in literature | |
| Home in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-342) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Nobody's home |
| ISBN: | 0-19-772549-X |
| 1-280-52662-9 | |
| 0-19-534482-0 | |
| 1-4294-0699-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785084603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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