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Nobody's home : speech, self, and place in American fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo / Arnold Weinstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weinstein, Arnold L., 1940- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Self in literature.
- Language and culture--United States.
- Language and culture.
- Freedom of speech in literature.
- Speech in literature.
- Place (Philosophy) in literature.
- Home in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-342) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028196-0
- 0-19-772549-X
- 1-280-52662-9
- 0-19-534482-0
- 1-4294-0699-2
- OCLC:
- 476010488
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