Original Subjects: The Child, the Novel, and the Nation: 46 (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature) - Softcover

Alryyes, Ala A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674002636 ISBN 13: 9780674002630

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2001

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The Child, the Novel, and the Nation

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Original Subjects explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation, as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions. Alryyes examines how these works deploy similar metaphors and signifying narratives in which a homeless child is central. Taking up such disparate writers and novelists as Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Defoe, Richardson, Diderot, Scott, Stendhal, Balzac, and Disraeli, as well as Homer, St. Augustine, and Hannah Arendt, this book argues that the generational parent-child dynamic is key to under-standing the structure of novels, the theory of the state, and the events of history.

Biografía del autor:

Ala Alryyes is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0674002636
• ISBN 13: 9780674002630
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240