Freedom Reread

In this reconsideration of Freedom (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of coming to terms with Jonathan Franzen. Wide-ranging and stylistically ambitious, Freedom Reread delivers an assured, artful inquiry into Franzen's novelistic technique and public persona.

List of contents

1. Coming Down on Franzen
2. "Ah, but Underneath"
3. Agnostic Omniscience
4. "Everyone's a Moralist"
5. Exiled in Guyville
6. The More He Fought About It, the Angrier He Got
7. Coming Down on Franzen (2)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

L. Gibson

Summary

In this reconsideration of Freedom (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of coming to terms with Jonathan Franzen. Wide-ranging and stylistically ambitious, Freedom Reread delivers an assured, artful inquiry into Franzen’s novelistic technique and public persona.

Product details

• Authors: L. Gibson
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2023
• EAN: 9780231188920
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18892-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Rereadings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary Criticism