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Fighting words [[electronic resource] ] : polemics and social change in literary naturalism / / Ira Wells



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Autore: Wells Ira <1981-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fighting words [[electronic resource] ] : polemics and social change in literary naturalism / / Ira Wells Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/12
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Naturalism in literature
Social problems in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 postur
Titolo autorizzato: Fighting words  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8677-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463519903321
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Serie: Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism