Family /

Family / editor, John V. Knapp. - Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013. - xiii, 317 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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 cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts containing the theme. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the theme can then move on to other essays that explore it in depth through a variety of critical approaches.--Publisher description.

9781429837347 (hardcover) 1429837349 (hardcover)

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Families in literature.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

PN 56 .F3 / F36 2013