J.D. Salinger's short stories
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J.D. Salinger's short stories
（Modern critical interpretations）
Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2011
- : hbk
Available at 9 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction / Harold Bloom
- Seymour: a clarification / Gordon E. Slethaug
- Seymour's suicide again: a new reading of J. D. Salinger's "A perfect day for bananafish" / Gary Lane
- A cloister of reality: the Glass family / James Lundquist
- Salinger criticism and "The laughing man": a case of arrested development / Richard Allan Davison
- Sergeant X, Esmé, and the meaning of words / John Wenke
- J. D. Salinger's religious pluralism: the example of Raise high the roof beam, Carpenters / Dennis L. O'Connor
- "Along this road goes no one": Salinger's "Teddy" and the failure of love / Anthony Kaufman
- New light on the nervous breakdowns of Salinger's Sergeant X and Seymour Glass / Eberhard Alsen
- Salinger's nine stories: fifty years later / Dominic Smith
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Though it was the adolescent honesty and attitude of The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield that initially put J.D. Salinger on the American literary map, it is his short fiction, mostly initially published in The New Yorker magazine, that has added immeasurably to his growing reputation through the years. The well-known tales of Nine Stories and the longer stories and novellas, including Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, are discussed in this volume offering a rare critical overview of Salinger's shorter prose offerings. Scholar Harold Bloom introduces this book of critical essays, which comes complete with a chronology of Salinger's life, a bibliography, and an index for easy reference.
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