Barbara Hochman (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: Hochman, Barbara. “Norris's Dubious Naturalism.” In The Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, pp. 1-19. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988.
[In the following essay, Hochman disputes Frank Norris's reputation as a naturalist, contending that the imaginative force of his work “is not to be sought in his naturalist concerns, but rather in a cluster of preoccupations that center on the vulnerability of the self.”]
“You don't understand. … It runs in my family to hate anything...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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