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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Ferguson, Robert Alan (1942-....)
Titre(s) : Alone in America [Texte imprimé] : the stories that matter / Robert A. Ferguson
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : x, 283 p. ; 20 cm
Comprend : Prologue: the lords of life -- ; Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle? -- ; Nathaniel
Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- ; Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young
face of change -- ; Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer defeat -- ; Edith Wharton's
anatomy of breakdown -- ; Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- ; The immigrant
novel: fear in America -- ; William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference
-- ; Saul Bellow observes old age -- ; Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss
-- ; Walt Whitman finds the courage to be.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index
With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates
loneliness 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 trumpeted American
individualism. Ferguson shows that we can learn, from our literature, how to live
alone
Sujet(s) : Roman américain
Solitude -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674066762 ((cloth; alk. paper). - ISBN 0674066766 ((cloth; alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42703748m
Notice n° :
FRBNF42703748
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)