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| Introduction: Self-Making and Freedom of Speech | 3 | |
| I | Outcasts of the Universe | |
| 1 | Hawthorne's "Wakefield" and the Art of Self-Possession | 13 |
| 2 | Melville: Knowing Bartleby | 27 |
| II | Masters and Slaves | |
| 3 | Stowe: Ghosting in Uncle Tom's Cabin | 47 |
| 4 | Twain: The Twinning Principle in Puddn'head Wilson | 65 |
| III | The Village Modernists | |
| 5 | Anderson: The Play of Winesburg, Ohio | 91 |
| 6 | Flannery O'Connor and the Art of Displacement | 108 |
| IV | The American Modernists and Freedom of Speech | |
| 7 | Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby: Fiction as Greatness | 131 |
| 8 | Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: The Voice from the Coffin | 148 |
| 9 | Faulkner: Fusion and Confusion in Light in August | 170 |
| 10 | Hemingway's Garden of Eden: The Final Combat Zone | 189 |
| V | The American Postmodernists and Freedom of Speech | |
| 11 | John Hawkes, Skin Trader | 213 |
| 12 | Robert Coover: Fiction as Fission | 235 |
| 13 | Dis-Membering and Re-Membering in Toni Morrison's Beloved | 265 |
| 14 | Don DeLillo: Rendering the Words of the Tribe | 288 |
| Conclusion | 317 | |
| Notes | 321 | |
| Index | 343 |
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Erin Barni
reviewed Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to Delillo on August 16, 2013 Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to Delillo
This is an impressive work of literary criticism because Irwin does nothing but give his own reading and analyses. So much of literary criticism is arguing with other critics and that is why the books are weighed down with a massive amount of footnotes. Dissertation disease: where you have to have read everything an have accounted for any line of thought that preceded yours. Irwin just reads the books and discusses. In the latter chapters Irwin makes a good case that Fitzgerald was more influential that Hemingway (the critics choice) as a key influencer among those hard-boiled writers who aspired to more literary acclaim. And he does a great job comparing the novel vs screenplay versions of The Maltese Falcon and Double Indemnity. All in all this book is chock full of original criticism and others will have to argue with it in their dissertation books.
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Add Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to Delillo, Focuses on some of the deepest instincts of American life and culture -- individual liberty, freedom of speech, constructing a life -- Arnold Weinstein brilliantly sketches the remarkable career of the American self over the past one hundred fifty years i, Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to Delillo to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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