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Critical insights
Critical insights. ^A1030970
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About this volume / Peter J. Bailey -- From "The male goodbye" to "Bananafish": the evolution of "A perfect day for Bananafish" and beyond / Peter J. Bailey -- J.D. Salinger: biographical sketch of a reluctant biographical subject / Peter J. Bailey -- Critical contexts: -- A war novel with no combat / Frederic Glover -- J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye": early responses in the popular press / Robert C. Evans -- Early reviews of J.D. Salinger's Raise high the roof beam, carpenters, and Seymour: an introduction / Robert C. Evans -- The bohemian madonna: Boo Boo Tannenbaum in "Down at the dinghy" / Sue Norton -- "Adventurers on behalf of us all": J.D. Salinger and John Updike / Peter J. Bailey -- Critical readings: -- Salinger's ghosts / Kenneth Slawenski -- Holden's favorite guy in the Bible / Sylvie Mat̐uh -- Smells like teen spirit: The catcher in the rye and the young-adult (YA) canon / Erik Esckilsen -- J.D. Salinger meets the wrath of Manic Pixxie Dream Girls / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- "To edify, to instruct": storytelling ethics and the children of Salinger's short fiction / Bridger Royce -- "Getting scared": unseasonable maturation in "The laughing man" and Thomas Pynchon's "The secret integration" / Peter J. Bailey -- From a loving heart: the art of affection in Eudora Welty's The ponder heart and J.D. Salinger's "Seymour": an introduction / Jericho Williams -- Logorrhea rampant: why Salinger chose Buddy Glass to write the letter in "Hapworth 16, 1924," / Donald Greiner -- Authenticity and the "real" writer: representations of J.D. Salinger in Coming through the rye, Rebel in the rye, and My Salinger year / Tammie M. Kennedy -- Resources: -- Chronology of J.D. Salinger's life -- Works by J.D. Salinger -- Bibliography -- About the editor -- Contributors. |
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The contributors to this volume approach the work of J.D. Salinger from a variety of perspectives - historical, formalist, biographical, feminist. What they share with each other and with readers everywhere is that none of them knows the answers to the questions that have haunted Salinger studies since the author's death on Hjanuary 27,2010: what are the contents of the Salinger vault, how much material does it contain, and when will its contenst be released to the public? The fifteen essays contained in this volume address countless questions about the enigmatic author of The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction, and they consistently offer very creditale, compelling responses to thme, further incrementing what George Steiner termed "the Salinger industry." (Publisher). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781637000755 |
| ISBN | 1637000758 hardcover |
