A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life - Arnold Weinstein - Livros - Random House USA Inc - 9780812972436 - 10 de agosto de 2004
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A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life

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?For too long we have been encouraged to see culture as an affair of intellect, and reading as a solitary exercise. But the truth is different: literature and art are pathways of feeling, and our encounter with them is social, inscribing us in a larger community.... Through art we discover that we are not alone.?

So writes the esteemed Brown University professor Arnold Weinstein in this brilliant, radical exploration of Western literature. In the tradition of Harold Bloom and Jacques Barzun, Weinstein guides us through great works of art, to reveal how literature constitutes nothing less than a feast for the heart. Our encounter with literature and art can be a unique form of human connection, an entry into the storehouse of feeling.

Writing about works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Munch, Proust, O?Neill, Burroughs, DeLillo, Tony Kushner, Toni Morrison, and others, Weinstein explores how writers and artists give us a vision of what human life is really all about. Reading is an affair of the heart as well as of the mind, deepening our sense of the fundamental forces and emotions that govern our lives, including fear, pain, illness, loss, depression, death, and love.

Provocative, beautifully written, essential, A Scream Goes Through the House traces the human cry that echoes in literature through the ages, demonstrating how intense feelings are heard and shared. With intellectual insight and emotional acumen, Weinstein reveals how the scream that resounds through the house of literature, history, the body, and the family shows us who we really are and joins us together in a vast and timeless community.


From the Hardcover edition.


480 pages

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 10 de agosto de 2004
ISBN13 9780812972436
Editoras Random House USA Inc
Páginas 480
Dimensões 131 × 203 × 25 mm   ·   508 g
Idioma Inglês  

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