English Language, Literature & Culture

Volume 1, Issue 1, May 2016

  • The Homeless Loneliness in Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel

    Zhao Shuwen

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1, May 2016
    Pages: 1-4
    Received: 17 March 2016
    Accepted: 30 March 2016
    Published: 09 May 2016
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ellc.20160101.12
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    Abstract: Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe is a book cherishing the memory of his homeland, a book displaying the survival experience of the American South, and a book searching for the spiritual home. The main characters in the novel all feel a deep loneliness. “For Wolfe, the experience of loneliness is neither strange nor curious, but ‘inevitable and ... Show More