| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 317 pages). |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On family / John V. Knapp -- Critical contexts. Critical reception of the family in literature / John V. Knapp -- Literary characters and family systems: D.H. Lawrence's Sons and lovers / John V. Knapp -- Recovering the history of the family / Steven Mintz -- Familia fictions: writing the family in Tomas Rivera's And the earth did not devour him and Sandra Cisnero's Caramelo / Catherine Leen -- Critical readings. An evolutionary approach to Shakespeare's King Lear / Joseph Carroll -- Order restored: conventional family as model of governance in Shakespeare's The tempest / Thomas M. McCann -- The power of story to shape lives in Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Susan Callahan -- A very wild dance indeed: family systems in Henrick Ibsen's A doll's house / Beth McFarland-Wilson and John V. Knapp -- Robert Frost and the absent child: valuing loss in "Home burial" and "The death of the hired man" / James Postema -- Family in Dante's The divine comedy / Nicla Riverso -- Tradition and family in modern British poetry / Brian Edwards and John V. Knapp -- Domestic forces in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina / Brett Cooke -- Marrying the right relatives: family ties in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice / Massimiliano Morini -- "A whole family of Hurstons": black and white kinship in Zora Neale Hurston's family narrative / Tim A. Ryan -- The bluest family eye: emergence in Toni Morrison's novel / Gillian Lachanski and John V. Knapp -- James Joyce's "The dead": Gabriel's epiphany and his evolving self / Sang-Wook Kim -- Resources. Additional works on family -- Bibliography. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This book provides readers with essays that address the theme of family in literature through a diverse set of texts and through multiple methodologies. The essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts containing the theme. |
| Subject |
Families in literature.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Families in literature. (OCoLC)fst00920365
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Literature -- Theory, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01353577
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Knapp, John V., 1940-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Family. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2012 9781429837347 (DLC) 2012010662 (OCoLC)777601659 |
| ISBN |
9781429837828 (electronic bk.) |
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1429837829 (electronic bk.) |
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