Reading the Symptom

Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and the Dynamics of Capitalism

Mohamed Zayani (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

1998
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3910-5 (ISBN)

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Reading the Symptom is concerned with naturalism; it is also necessarily concerned with capitalism as the complex-structuring whole within which naturalism operates and from which it cannot be disengaged. Tightly connected with this polemic assertion is a methodological proposition: naturalism - and by extension capitalism - is characterized not only by its logic, but also by its asymmetrical dynamism. Focusing on Frank Norris's McTeague (and its companion piece Vandover and the Brute) and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, this study argues that naturalism puts into question the very system it exemplifies. Naturalism has a transgressive element at its core, the appreciation of which calls for a special attention to the role and consequence of the emergent, the aleatory, and the stochastic. To explore the interplay between the systematic and the asystematic is not only to come to the conclusion that naturalism is an open, creative system, but also to realize that uneven development is the basic law of social formations.

The Author: Mohamed Zayani is Culver Tilden Professor of Literature and Critical Theory at Cape Cod College. He received his Ph.D. in English from Indiana University.

Reihe/Serie	Modern American Literature ; 15
Vorwort	Jean-Joseph Goux
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
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ISBN-10	0-8204-3910-X / 082043910X
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3910-5 / 9780820439105
Zustand	Neuware