A Scream Goes Through the House

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What Literature Teaches Us About Life

Arnold Weinstein

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Random House USA Inc
15 September 2004

Literacy; Literary studies: general

""This book is literally a matter of life and death . . . A passionate tribute to the power of art to restore us all,"" (Robert Fagles).

Weinstein gives us a radical new way to read those great writers you wish you'd understood better.

""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 Bronte, 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.

By: Arnold Weinstein
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 435g
ISBN: 9780812972436
ISBN 10: 0812972430
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 15 September 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Arnold Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He also gives a series of audio and video lectures on world literature for The Teaching Company. He spends his time in Providence, Block Island, Stockholm, and Brittany.

Reviews for A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life

Simply put, A Scream Goes Through the House is a breakthrough book, a triumph of scholarship and writing. What a treat it is to have Weinstein guide us through some of the canonical works of literature and show us what we have intuitively suspected: that literature does more than just entertain; literature educates, literature provides us with a map for our journey, and literature gives the journey meaning. Indeed, A Scream Goes Through the House proves its own thesis by doing just that for the reader. It is a book for the ages. --Abraham Verghese, author of The Tennis Partner and My Own Country A Scream Goes Through the House is the crown of Arnold Weinstein's distinguished career as a teacher and writer, a deep response to great works of prose and poetry, art, theater, and film from Sophocles and Shakespeare to a wealth of modern authors. This book is literally a matter of life and death, for it celebrates the bonds between our mortality and our survival, our pain and our sensitivity, our frailty and our strength, our individual and communal selves, the vital bridges only works of imagination can construct. A scream goes through the house, and whether it is the house of art or the house of human-kind, that scream--thanks to Weinstein's insight, eloquence, and courage--pierces the heart, wounding us even as it makes us whole and well. A passionate tribute to the power of art to restore us all. --Robert Fagles From the Hardcover edition.