Critical Children
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-15783-4 (ISBN)
Writing as an editor, teacher, critic, and essayist, Locke demonstrates the way these great novels work, how they spring to life from their details, and how they both invite and resist interpretation and provoke rereading. Locke conveys the variety and continued vitality of these books as they shift from Victorian moral allegory to New York comic psychoanalytic monologue, from a child who is an agent of redemption to one who is a narcissistic prisoner of guilt and proud rage.
Richard Locke is professor of writing at the Columbia University School of the Arts, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, and other publications. He has been editor in chief of Vanity Fair and deputy editor of the New York Times Book Review.
Introduction 1. Charles Dickens's Heroic Victims: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Pip 2. Mark Twain's Free Spirits and Slaves: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn 3. Henry James's Demonic Lambs: Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw 4. J. M. Barrie's Eternal Narcissist: Peter Pan 5. J. D. Salinger's Saintly Dropout: Holden Caulfield 6. Vladimir Nabokov's Abused Nymph: Lolita 7. Philip Roth's Performing Loudmouth: Alexander Portnoy Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Verlagsort | New York |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-231-15783-5 / 0231157835 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-15783-4 / 9780231157834 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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