The Oxford handbook of American literary naturalism
"After its heydey in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, naturalism--a genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of biological and environmental forces over which they have little control--was supplanted by modernism, a genre in which writers experimented with innova...
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Oxford ; New York ; Auckland [etc.] :
Oxford University Press
C 2011.
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| Col·lecció: | Oxford Handbooks Series
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Oxford handbook of American literary naturalism, edited by Keith Newlin, 2012, [Oxford], Oxford University Press, Oxford Handbooks Online |
| Sumari: | "After its heydey in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, naturalism--a genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of biological and environmental forces over which they have little control--was supplanted by modernism, a genre in which writers experimented with innovations in form and content. In the last decade, the movement is again attracting spirited scholarly debate. This book takes stock of the best new research in the field through collecting twenty-eight original essays drawing upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies. The contributors offer an reassessment of writers from Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London to Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, John Steinbeck, Joyce Carol Oates, and Cormac McCarthy. One set of essays focuses on the genre itself, exploring the historical contexts that gave birth to it, the problem of definition, its interconnections with other genres, the scientific and philosophical ideas that motivate naturalist authors, and the continuing presence of naturalism in twenty-first century fiction. Others examine the tensions within the genre--the role of women and African-American writers, depictions of sexuality, the problem of race, and the critique of commodity culture and class. A final set of essays looks beyond the works to consider the role of the market place in the development of naturalism, the popular and critical response to individual writers, and the influence of naturalism in the other arts." |
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| Descripció física: | 1 vol. (XIII-521 p.) : couv. ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliografia: | Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Notes bibliogr. Index |
| ISBN: | 9780195368932 (rel.) 0195368932 (rel.) |