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This volume in the Critical Insights series addresses the theme of family in literature through a diverse set of texts and through multiple methodologies. For readers who are studying the theme for the first time, a four essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultur...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Knapp, John V., 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, [2013]
Series:Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
  • On family / John V. Knapp
  • Critical contexts : Critical reception of the family in literature / John V. Knapp ; Literary characters and family systems: D.H. Lawrence's Sons and lovers / John V. Knapp ; Recovering the history of the family / Steven Mintz ; Familia fictions: writing the family in Tomas Rivera's And the earth did not devour him and Sandra Cisnero's Caramelo / Catherine Leen
  • Critical readings : An evolutionary approach to Shakespeare's King Lear / Joseph Carroll ; Order restored: conventional family as model of governance in Shakespeare's The tempest / Thomas M. McCann ; The power of story to shape lives in Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Susan Callahan ; A very wild dance indeed: family systems in Henrick Ibsen's A doll's house / Beth McFarland-Wilson and John V. Knapp ; Robert Frost and the absent child: valuing loss in "Home burial" and "The death of the hired man" / James Postema ; Family in Dante's The divine comedy / Nicla Riverso ; Tradition and family in modern British poetry / Brian Edwards and John V. Knapp ; Domestic forces in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina / Brett Cooke ; Marrying the right relatives: family ties in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice / Massimiliano Morini ; "A whole family of Hurstons": black and white kinship in Zora Neale Hurston's family narrative / Tim A. Ryan ; The bluest family eye: emergence in Toni Morrison's novel / Gillian Lachanski and John V. Knapp ; James Joyce's "The dead": Gabriel's epiphany and his evolving self / Sang-Wook Kim.