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Alone in America: the stories that matter

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Main Author:	Ferguson, Robert A. 1942-2017 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard Univ. Press 2013
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism Loneliness in literature Kurzgeschichte Roman Einsamkeit > Motiv USA
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis Klappentext
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	X, 283 S.
ISBN:	9780674066762

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adam_text	CONTENTS Prologue: The Lords of Life ι 1. Does Nobody Here Know Rip Van Winkle? 17 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne Dissects Betrayal 35 3. Louisa May Alcott Meets Mark Twain over the Young Face of Change 61 4. Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston Answer Defeat 90 5. Edith Wharton s Anatomy of Breakdown 116 Midpoint: The Lords of Life Revisited 135 6. The Immigrant Novel: Fear in America 141 7. William Faulkner and Toni Morrison Plot Racial Difference 157 8. Saul Bellow Observes Old Age 180 9. Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson Mourn Loss 201 10. Walt Whitman Finds the Courage to Be 231 Bibliography 253 Index 273 Robert A. Ferguson investigates the nature of lone¬ liness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trum¬ peted American individualism. The theme is a vi¬ tal one because a greater percentage of people live alone today than at any other time in U.S. history. The many isolated characters in American fie- tion, Ferguson says, a o us through inward claims of identity when pitted against the social pri¬ orities of a consensual culture. They indicate how we might talk to ourselves when the same prés¬ ures come our way. In fiction, more vis lite, defining mom ner conversation. he clarity or ai Alone in America tests the inner conversations that work and sometimes tail. It examines the typ¬ ical elements and moments that force us toward a solitary state--failure, betrayal, change, defeat, breakdown, fear, difference, age, and loss in their ascending power over us. It underlines the evolving in response. Twain s Huck Finn and Toni Morrison s Sethc and Paul D., or Louisa May Alcot thless situations and Marilynne Robinson s ut their own possibilities against taking thin sustenance from the philosophy of self- son says we can lrom our fic¬ tion how to live alone.
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