Examines the background and themes of 'Catcher in the Rye,' discusses the novel's censorship, and examines the character of Holden Caulfield (view table of contents)

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A critical introduction to Salinger's classic novel, covering characterization, plot, symbolism, and setting

A critical introduction to Salinger's classic novel, covering characterization, plot, symbolism, and setting

Product Description: Few American writers have enjoyed such an auspicious debut as Heller did with "Catch-22", and fewer still have managed to follow their initial success with novels that are read as widely, and with as much enjoyment, as are Heller's...read more

Product Description: The certainty that deep down we are all schlemiels is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public.In this unique, revised history of the schlemiel, Sanford Pinsker uses psychological, linguistic, and anecdotal approaches, as well as his considerable skills as a spritely storyteller, to trace the schlemiel from his beginnings in the Old Testament through his appearance in the nineteenth-century literature of Mendele Mocher Seforim and Sholom Aleichem to his final development as the beautiful loser in the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and Woody Allen...read more

Product Description: Pinsker identifies the literary trends that dominated the decade and focuses upon authors who came into prominence during this period.

A study which examines Roth's progress towards a technique for dealing with and moving beyond the stereotyped image of the American Jew