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Book

J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye

Call Number

  • 813 S165BL.3 (CEN)

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Edition

New ed.

Publication Information

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2009.

Physical Description

vii, 215 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • Editor's note
  • Introduction / Harold Bloom
  • Rhetoric, sanity, and the Cold War : the significance of Holden Caulfield's testimony / Alan Nadel
  • "The world was all before them" : coming of age in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep not, child and J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye / Sandra W. Lott, Steven Latham
  • Go West, my son / Sanford Pinsker
  • Hyakujo's geese, Amban's doughnuts and Rilke's carrousel : sources East and West for Salinger's Catcher/ Dennis McCort
  • Cherished and cursed : toward a social history of The catcher in the rye / Stephen J. Whitfield
  • The catcher in the rye as postwar American fable / Pamela Hunt Steinle
  • Holden Caulfield's legacy / David Castronovo
  • The boy that had created the disturbance : reflections on minor characters in life and The catcher in the rye / John McNally
  • Holden Caulfield : a love story / Jane Mendelsohn
  • Catcher in the corn : J. D. Salinger and Shoeless Joe / Dennis Cutchins
  • Mentor Mori ; or, Sibling society and the Catcher in the Bly / Robert Miltner
  • Memories of Holden Caulfield--and of Miss Greenwood / Carl Freedman
  • The Zen archery of Holden Caulfield / Yasuhiro Takeuchi
  • Chronology
  • Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

Subjects

Added Authors

Harold Bloom