Alienation /

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Imprint:New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2009.
Description:xvi, 222 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Bloom's literary themes
Subject:
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7694340
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Other authors / contributors:Bloom, Harold.
Hobby, Blake.
ISBN:9780791097984 (acid-free paper)
0791097986 (acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Introduction
  • Volume Introduction
  • "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (Herman Melville)
  • "Reading the Original: Alienation, Writing, and Labor in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'"
  • The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
  • "Alienation and Renewal in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar"
  • Black Boy (Richard Wright)
  • "Richard Wright's Blues"
  • Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
  • "Alienation in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World"
  • The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
  • "Alienation, Materialism, and Religion in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye"
  • The Chosen (Chaim Potok)
  • "The Head, the Heart and the Conflict of Generations in Chaim Potok's The Chosen"
  • Dubliners (James Joyce)
  • "Alienation in James Joyce's Dubliners"
  • Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
  • "Burning Bright: Fahrenheit 451 as Symbolic Dystopia"
  • Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
  • "Book IV, Chapter XIII"
  • The Iliad (Homer)
  • "The Solitary Amphora: Alienation and Tradition in Homer's Iliad"
  • Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
  • "Alienation as Narrative Strategy in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man"
  • Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
  • "Divided Selves"
  • Notes from Underground (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky)
  • "The Journal Epoch, Notes from Underground"
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
  • "The Grail Knight Arrives"
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
  • "Masks in the Mirror: The Eighteen-Nineties"
  • The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus)
  • "Camus' The Outsider"
  • The Trial (Franz Kafka)
  • "The Trial"
  • Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
  • "A World Without Solace...Nearly Almost Always: Alienation in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot"
  • The Waste Land (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
  • "'Each in His Prison': Damnation and Alienation in The Waste Land"
  • "Young Goodman Brown" (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  • "Hawthorne"
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
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