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.
