dc.contributor.author | Hochman, Barbara | eng |
dc.contributor.corporatename | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.date.issued | 1988 | eng |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-145) and index. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Over the past twenty years, critics have increasingly challenged the conventional wisdom on Frank Norris as an exponent of literary naturalism. In the present study, Barbara Hochman goes still further in redefining his affinities. She focuses on his artistry as a storyteller, and on his overriding concern with human contact and the functions of aesthetic form. Hochman begins by considering traditional approaches to Norris. She notes thin although the rhetoric of the narrative voice' and the pattern of events in his fiction made Norris's work seem to fit neatly into the naturalist category, his four major novels- Vandover and the Brute, McTeague, The Octopus, and The Pit- lend themselves to very different readings. Hochman argues that the imaginative focus of Norris's work centers on the vulnerability of the self and its quest for a measure of equilibrium. She shows how Norris's work increasingly depicts constructive individual responses to experience, and the stabilizing power of memory, language, and art. These concerns are seen to account for the enduring vitality of Norris's work, and for the popularity it enjoyed in its own time.-- Book jacket. | eng |
dc.description.digitization | Digitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2013. Digitized at 600 dpi with Zeutschel, OS 15000 scanner. Access copy, available in MOspace, is 400 dpi, grayscale. | eng |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Norris's Dubious Naturalism -- The Power of the Word -- Vandover and the Brute:The Failure of Memory and Art -- Loss, Habit, Obsession:The Governing Dynamic of McTeague -- The Language of Recovery:Word and Symbol in The Octopus -- Coming of Age in The Pit -- Afterword: A Parting Glance. | eng |
dc.format.extent | 149 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/35180 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.relation.ispartof | University of Missouri Press (MU) | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcollection | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri System. Office of Academic Affairs (UM). University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism; Self in literature; Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation | eng |
dc.title | The art of Frank Norris, storyteller | eng |
dc.type | Book | eng |