Description |
1 online resource (206 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
|
|
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
|
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Acknowledgments; Naturalism: A Polemical Introduction; Chapter 1: An Education; Chapter 2: The Polemical Nature of Naturalism in America; Chapter 3: Against the Grain: Ecology, Environmentalism, and Frank Norris's 'The Octopus'; Chapter 4: Crimes of Art and Nature: An American Tragedy and the Problem of Abortion; Chapter 5: "What I Killed for, I Am" : Domestic Terror in Richard Wright's America; Epilogue: Why Norman Mailer Hates Plastic; Notes; Works Consulted; Index. |
Summary |
Fighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters. Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism's much-touted concern with environmental and philosophical determinism, draws attention to the polemical essence of the genre and demonstrates how literary naturalists engaged instead with explosive political and cultural issues that remain fervently debated today. Naturalist writers, Wells argues in Fighting Words, are united less by a coherent philosophy than by an attitude, a postur. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
American fiction. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Naturalism in literature.
|
|
Naturalism in literature. |
|
Social problems in literature.
|
|
Social problems in literature. |
Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
Other Form: |
Print version: Wells, Ira. Fighting Words. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013 9780817317997 |
ISBN |
9780817386771 (electronic book) |
|
0817386777 (electronic book) |
|
9780817317997 (trade cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
0817317996 (trade cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|