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- catalog 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.".
- catalog contributor b2180502.
- catalog created "1988.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1988.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 140-145.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "149 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Art of Frank Norris, storyteller.".
- catalog identifier "0826206638 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Art of Frank Norris, storyteller.".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Art of Frank Norris, storyteller.".
- catalog subject "813/.4 19".
- catalog subject "Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS2473 .H6 1988".
- catalog subject "Psychological fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Self in literature.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog title "The art of Frank Norris, storyteller / Barbara Hochman.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".