| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-342) and index. |
| Contents |
Hawthorne's "Wakefield" and the art of self-possession -- Melville : knowing Bartleby -- Stowe : ghosting in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Twain : the twinning principle in Puddn'head Wilson -- Anderson : the play of Winesburg, Ohio -- Flannery O'Connor and the art of displacement -- Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby : fiction as greatness -- Faulkner's As I lay dying : the voice from the coffin -- Faulkner : fusion and confusion in Light in August -- Hemingway's Garden of Eden : the final combat zone -- John Hawkes, skin trader -- Robert Coover : fiction as fission -- Dis-membering and re-membering in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Don DeLillo : rendering the words of the tribe. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
In Nobody's Home, Arnold Weinstein defies the current trends of cultural studies and postmodern criticism to create a sweeping account of American fiction. From Hawthorne's "Wakefield" to Don deLillo's novels, the book pursues the idea of freedom of speech in the work of American writers. Though many contemporary critics emphasize the ways in which we are bound by the limitations of culture, history and language, Weinstein sees the issue of freedom (to speak, to create a self, to overcome repression) as central to the enterprise of American fiction in the past two centuries. Weinstein brings together canonical American texts by Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Twain, Anderson, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway with contemporary fiction by John Hawkes, Toni Morrison, Robert Coover and Don deLillo. This broad historical continuum is charted in a critical style that is lucid and engaging. The book's superb readings of individual texts, together form a coherent and inspiring vision of the great achievements of American fiction. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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Self in literature.
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Language and culture -- United States.
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Freedom of speech in literature.
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Speech in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Home in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
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Freedom of speech in literature. (OCoLC)fst00934060
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Home in literature. (OCoLC)fst00959307
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Language and culture. (OCoLC)fst00992135
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Place (Philosophy) in literature. (OCoLC)fst01064981
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Self in literature. (OCoLC)fst01111462
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Speech in literature. (OCoLC)fst01129229
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Zelf.
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Recht van meningsuiting.
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Letterkunde.
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Amerikaans.
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| Indexed Term |
English fiction |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weinstein, Arnold L. Nobody's home. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (DLC) 92022792 |
| ISBN |
1429406992 (electronic bk.) |
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9781429406994 (electronic bk.) |
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